Roundup 09 - API Design

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO.
* Assembly Language libraries + http://homepage.mac.com/randyhyde/webster.cs.ucr.edu/HighLevelAsm/HLADoc/HLAStdlib_info.html

• C libraries

• http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/webmonkeys/book/c_guide/

• Python libraries

• http://docs.python.org/library/

• Principle of least astonishment

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment

• Bean Managed Persistence vs JPA

• http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/1_3-fcs/doc/BMP2.html#62907

• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/jpa/

• Standard Java libraries

• http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/

• Java 5 collections

• http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/package-frame.html

• Pythonic

• http://faassen.n--tree.net/blog/view/weblog/2005/08/06/0

• Groovy

• http://groovy.codehaus.org/

• Levels of abstraction

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_(computer_science)

• Test/Contract driven API design

• http://www.agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html

• http://www.artima.com/intv/contest.html

• Builder Pattern

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builder_pattern

• Breaking changes in APIs

• http://wiki.eclipse.org/Evolving_Java-based_APIs_2

• EJB 2.x & EJB 3.x

• http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.jst.ejb.doc.user/topics/cearch.html

• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2006/jw-0814-ejb.html

• CORBA

• http://www.corba.org/

• Design by committee

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_committee

• Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)

• http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?AbstractSyntaxTree

• NetBeans Modules

• http://netbeans.org/kb/trails/platform.html

• OSGi

• http://www.osgi.org/Main/HomePage

• Classloader

• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-1996/jw-10-indepth.html

• Annotations

• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/apt/

• Ski symbols

• http://skiing.about.com/od/safetyforskiers/a/skitrailratings.htm

• Wordstar

• http://www.wordstar.org/

• Javadoc

• http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/

• @Deprecated

• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Deprecated.html

• Annotation parameters

• http://www.developer.com/article.php/3556176

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