Take a look at uncle Bob’s Package Design Principles. He explains reasons and motivations behind those principles, which I have elaborated on below: Classes that get reused together should be packaged together so that the package can be treated as a sort of complete product available for you. And those which are reused together should … Read more
Seems like what you’re looking for are the Principles of Object-Oriented Design. Summarized from Agile Software Development Principles, Patterns, and Practices. These principles are the hard-won product of decades of experience in software engineering. They are not the product of a single mind, but they represent the integration and writings of a large number of … Read more
Absolutely not. Circular dependencies are a indication of bad design. I don’t mean to be harsh. There are some ways out of this. 1) You can refactor common code to another project, say Project#0 2) You can fix your design, which is probably the way to go. Uncle Bob has a good article on Packaging … Read more