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Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects?

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On 1/8/2012 10:22 AM, Novice wrote:

> But in the meantime, are there any general rules I can use to make these
> decisions for code I am developing now? Or do I really need to master
> several books first?


Loose Coupling is one such general rule.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loose_coupling>

This is basically what Patricia is advocating, as classes that are 
loosely coupled tend also to be easier to unit test.

For example, you seem to have a lot of different (and fairly complex) 
classes running around your code right now.  One way to simplify unit 
testing is to use mock objects.

<http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-mocktest/index.html>

There's some good links in both of those articles to get you started.


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Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-01-08 16:41 +0000
  Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-01-08 09:08 -0800
    Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-01-08 18:22 +0000
      Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? markspace <-@.> - 2012-01-08 10:45 -0800
      Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-08 11:49 -0800
      Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-01-08 14:04 -0800
        Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-01-08 22:40 +0000
          Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-01-08 15:56 -0800
            Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-09 06:34 -0400
              Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-09 12:39 -0500
                Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-09 12:42 -0500
                Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-01-09 13:43 -0800
                Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-09 17:26 -0500
                Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-10 06:47 -0800
                Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-01-09 14:26 -0800
                Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-09 19:06 -0400
                Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-09 18:46 -0500
                Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-09 19:52 -0500
                Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-10 06:43 -0400
              Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-01-10 02:11 +0000
              Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-01-09 20:17 -0800
              Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-10 06:43 -0800
                Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-10 19:13 -0400
      Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-09 14:30 -0500
        Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-09 17:28 -0500
          Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-01-10 02:24 +0000
            Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-10 06:35 -0400
              Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-01-10 22:48 +0000
  Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2012-01-08 17:17 +0000
  Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-08 13:43 -0500
    Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-08 19:01 -0500
  Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-08 14:10 -0500
    Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-08 14:41 -0500
  Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-09 04:13 -0800

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