How to write a simple API is already an art on its own. I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. ― Mark Twain But keeping an API simple for beginners and most users, and making it extensible for power users seems even more of a challenge. … Continue reading How to Write a Simple, yet Extensible API
Tag: SPI
Do Not Make This Mistake When Developing an SPI
Most of your code is private, internal, proprietary, and will never be exposed to public. If that's the case, you can relax - you can refactor all of your mistakes, including those that incur breaking API changes. If you're maintining public API, however, that's not the case. If you're maintaining public SPI (Service Provider Interfaces), … Continue reading Do Not Make This Mistake When Developing an SPI
10 Subtle Best Practices when Coding Java
This is a list of 10 best practices that are more subtle than your average Josh Bloch Effective Java rule. While Josh Bloch's list is very easy to learn and concerns everyday situations, this list here contains less common situations involving API / SPI design that may have a big effect nontheless. I have encountered … Continue reading 10 Subtle Best Practices when Coding Java
jOOQ Newsletter August 2013
Subscribe to this newsletter here Overwhelming feedback from the jOOQ User Survey jOOQ has been the leading Java Open Source SQL building tool for the last three years. Feedback on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, reddit, Stack Overflow has been very positive. The recent user survey was well received by an increasingly growing jOOQ … Continue reading jOOQ Newsletter August 2013