Object Design Workshop

• Guidelines and Idioms: Best practices in object-oriented Java design
• Me: Present the Guidelines and Idioms
• We: Discuss the Guidelines and Idioms
• We: Work on an API Design Project
• You: Present your API to us
• We: Critique it mercilessly

Goals

• Facilitate a discussion about design
• Learn from each other
• Improve your object-oriented design skills
• Learn about the Java language
• Create an API design experience
• Leave with a concrete set of guidelines and idioms

Agenda

• Guideline Grab Bag (exceptions, thread safety, finalizers)
• API Design Project and the Event Generator Idiom
• Designing Objects
• More API Design Project
• Designing with Composition and Inheritance
• More API Design Project
• Designing with Interfaces
• More API Design Project
• Design Patterns

Guideline Zero

• Every guideline presented in this workshop should be ignored some of the time, including this one.