Chapter 4. Facade
A great advantage of object-oriented (OO) programming is that it helps keep applications from becoming monolithic programs with hopelessly interwoven pieces. An “application” in an OO system is a minimal class that knits together the behaviors from reusable toolkits of other classes. A toolkit or subsystem developer often creates packages of well-designed classes without providing any applications that tie the classes together. The packages in the JDK are generally like this; they are toolkits from which you can weave an endless variety of domain-specific applications.
The reusability of toolkits comes with a problem: The diverse applicability of classes in an OO subsystem may offer an oppressive variety of options. A developer ...
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