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the billion dollar question, what is a Java SSO? | 275 comments | Create New Account

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the billion dollar question, what is a Java SSO?

Authored by: lwoggardner on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 08:10 PM EDT

It doesn't need an analogy, but it does need some understanding of object oriented programming concepts.

The SSO of the Java SE platform libraries is

Organisation:

the package hierachy (java.lang vs java.nio.channels)

the unordered list of classes in each package

Structure:

the class inheritance hierarchy (eg. java.lang.Integer < java.lang.Number < java.lang.Object)

the (unordered) list of methods (functions) in each class

the signature of those methods - return type, method name, ordered list of parameters by name and type, eg for java.lang.Math.max public static long max(long a, long b)

Alternatively take a directory of java source code. In each file of every subdirectory remove any comments (lines beginning with //, or between /* */) and any implementation code (everything between curly braces).

What is left is the SSO that describes the API of that library.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

the billion dollar question, what is a Java SSO? - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 10:07 PM EDT
the billion dollar question, what is a Java SSO? - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 02:03 AM EDT
- I think SSO is a key feature of a non-trivial API. - Authored by: Ian Al on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 09:04 AM EDT

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