Java API definitions In Part 1, I explained the distinction between prescriptive and descriptive API use. In a prescriptive definition, the API drives code creation, whereas in a descriptive ...
The heart of a modern application isn’t code anymore — it’s the APIs that let us connect that application to the rest of the world. In today’s era of distributed, componentized, service-oriented ...
One way to clean up an existing API is to provide a fluent interface to it. The goal of a fluent interface is to simplify the consumption of your API by making it more readable and discoverable. If ...