Comments on: “Practical API Design: Confessions of a Java Framework Architect” Book Review http://72miles.com/blog/practical-api-design-confessions-of-a-java-framework-architect-book-reivew/ Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:52:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: cbang http://72miles.com/blog/practical-api-design-confessions-of-a-java-framework-architect-book-reivew/comment-page-1/#comment-128 cbang Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:19:21 +0000 http://72miles.com/blog/?p=120#comment-128 A very decent book but it focuses a bit too much on backwards compatibility in my opinion. If you depress easily over this, skip over the first chapters and avoid statements like "simplicity and elegance is not the goal at all". Also, I was a bit surprised that a book on API design in Java completely fails to mention checked exceptions, considering the scalability and versionability issues involved.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('128','cbang'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('128','cbang','A very decent book but it focuses a bit too much on backwards compatibility in my opinion. If you depress easily over this, skip over the first chapters and avoid statements like \"simplicity and elegance is not the goal at all\". Also, I was a bit surprised that a book on API design in Java completely fails to mention checked exceptions, considering the scalability and versionability issues involved.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> A very decent book but it focuses a bit too much on backwards compatibility in my opinion. If you depress easily over this, skip over the first chapters and avoid statements like “simplicity and elegance is not the goal at all”. Also, I was a bit surprised that a book on API design in Java completely fails to mention checked exceptions, considering the scalability and versionability issues involved.
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]]> By: Mike http://72miles.com/blog/practical-api-design-confessions-of-a-java-framework-architect-book-reivew/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Mike Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:17:20 +0000 http://72miles.com/blog/?p=120#comment-122 @Jaroslav Tulach – Jaroslav himself. Thanks for commenting.

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]]> By: Jaroslav Tulach http://72miles.com/blog/practical-api-design-confessions-of-a-java-framework-architect-book-reivew/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Jaroslav Tulach Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:28:47 +0000 http://72miles.com/blog/?p=120#comment-119 Thanks for nice review. Btw. our blogs are better to be found at http://blogs.apidesign.org<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('119','Jaroslav Tulach'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('119','Jaroslav Tulach','Thanks for nice review. Btw. our blogs are better to be found at http:\/\/blogs.apidesign.org'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Thanks for nice review. Btw. our blogs are better to be found at http://blogs.apidesign.org
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]]> By: Chris http://72miles.com/blog/practical-api-design-confessions-of-a-java-framework-architect-book-reivew/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Chris Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:50:43 +0000 http://72miles.com/blog/?p=120#comment-118 Looks like this should be on the "must read" list of OS developers.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('118','Chris'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('118','Chris','Looks like this should be on the \"must read\" list of OS developers.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Looks like this should be on the “must read” list of OS developers.
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