Sun's Joshua Bloch On OOP/OOD In Java

f00zbll writes: "A good article about development and OOP/OOD. The lessons apply to most OO languages and OOD. Interview with Joshua Bloch over at Javaworld. Ignore the fact that Java is owned by Sun and use the tips to help your work/project/development."

Comments

Auhhh :-)

[sinserve]

This guy just gave me the encouragement I needed.

As a /standalone/ programmer/designer/analyst, I
developed this API design philosphy on my own.
Actually, I have evolved to it.

If you are in a one-mans shop, or do alot of coding
for a specific domain, try to roll out your own
layer of helper APIs on top of the system provided ones.

I work on win32 and ODBC: I have my own class
hierchies of *standard* dialogs for DB applications.
Ex: the ActiveX components for DB Appz (advanced
list views, financial stats, bar charts and graphs, etc.)
are really resource greedy (the updating required
for a dynaset database connection, with millions
of records being fetched per minute is very
expensive.)
So I wrote some ready to run classes, that take
care of the interface (with all the company logos
and standard look-and-feel stuff.)
then wrote some other classes to wrap around the
"CResultView" classes, and finally,
wrote some classes that *know* about our strange
servers, and are optimized for them (including
a connection "language" I derived, which is nothing
more than a hand optimization of the subset of
SQL accepted by oracle.)

So, if the shop is good to you, be good to them
and put your talent to work.
The API method works, and I am a living witness for it.