Chapter 5. Interfaces and Contracts
During your years as a software developer, you've likely come across the notion of interface-based programming. If you're familiar with the seminal book, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (known as the "Gang of Four"),[13] then you know that many design patterns employ interface-style "contracts." If you're not familiar with that book and its concepts, I urge you to read it. In this chapter, it is my goal to show you how you can model well-defined, versioned contracts using interfaces. In this context, a contract is an agreement by a type to support a set of functionality.
If you've done any COM or CORBA development ...
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