Encapsulation and information hiding are very closely linked concepts, though their precise definitions vary depending on who you talk to. The concept of “information hiding” was first described by Parnas (1972) who suggested that access to information should be restricted to reduce the interconnectedness of a system. He proposed that this would facilitate splitting of … Read more
I have mine broken up as follows: ~/app |~controllers | |-monkey.js | |-zoo.js |~models | |-monkey.js | |-zoo.js |~views | |~zoos | |-new.jade | |-_form.jade |~test | |~controllers | |-zoo.js | |~models | |-zoo.js |-index.js I use Exports to return what’s relevant. For instance, in the models I do: module.exports = mongoose.model(‘PhoneNumber’, PhoneNumberSchema); and then … Read more
Imports are an all or nothing thing. Everything that’s in the file is what you get. If you look through the source of Foundation, though, there are variables you can modify that will suppress emitting styles (eg. in buttons, setting $include-html-button-classes to false will disable the styles). This design pattern is Foundation specific, you cannot … Read more
You can use your library as an automatic module. An automatic module is a module that doesn’t have a module descriptor (i.e. module-info.class). But what name do you need to specify to refer to an automatic module? The name of the automatic module is derived from the JAR name (unless this JAR contains an Automatic-Module-Name … Read more
You can put common resources in the /META-INF/resources folder of the JAR which is to be treated like as /WEB-INF/resources folder of the WAR. E.g. CommonWebProject |– META-INF | |– resources | | `– common | | |– css | | | `– some.css | | |– js | | | `– some.js | | … Read more