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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.