Though type is an extremely important object-oriented concept, it is often overlooked in favor of implementation-centric concerns. Java program development is as much about design as about ...

Readers have returned quite a bit of feedback concerning, “Abstract Classes Vs. Interfaces” from April 2001. A recurring request asks to see a complete example of using interfaces and abstract classes ...

The Bridge Pattern is a common software design pattern that allows a class's implementation to be decoupled from its abstraction so the two can vary independently of one another. Today I'll cover the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Programming to the interface is a common concept among object-oriented programmers. It provides ...

The last three articles have explored the five steps to designing an embedded software architecture. So far, we’ve separated our software architecture into hardware-dependent and independent ...