Posts Tagged Design Patterns
A (overlooked?) use case for the Strategy pattern, part 2: it’s not about Template Method
Recap As I explained in my previous post, I think there is a use case for the strategy pattern that, in my opinion, we often overlook: This is what I’ve seen: class A has method x. Just after method x is done doing its thing and before it exits, it calls a (sometimes empty) protected [...]
A (overlooked?) use case for the Strategy pattern
Composition over inheritance. It seems that we all agree and understand this valuable principle. I’ve been reading a good amount of code lately from some open source projects (including mine,) and I think we are still missing at least one use case where to apply it. This is what I’ve seen: class A has method [...]
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My name is Alex Ruiz. I'm a programmer with special interest in Java, API design, testing and OOP. I'm the creator of FEST, an open source project that aims at making testing of Swing and JavaFX user interfaces (and testing in general) easier.
I work as a Software Engineer in the JavaFX Controls team at Oracle.
