[Rxtx] NRJavaSerial, a fork of rxtx that fixes the papercuts!

[George H]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Adrian Crum <
adrian.crum at sandglass-software.com> wrote:

> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2003/jw-0801-toolbox.html
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> On 3/25/2011 1:32 PM, Andre-John Mas wrote:
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>> On 24-Mar-2011, at 16:26, Adrian Crum wrote:
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>>  Using a concrete class in an API is a bad idea. Maybe you should consider
>>> using Collection<>  or Iterator<>  instead of ArrayList.
>>>
>>> -Adrian
>>>
>> Could probably use List<>  too, depending on the use case. One advantage
>> with using Set<>  or List<>  is that they give some sort of
>> indication of the uniqueness of the results.
>>
>> My 5c.
>>
>> Andre
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Well when writing a library it's always good convention to only expose
interfaces to the outside and on the inside you can use concrete classes
where you wish, or sometimes not.

I guess some hierarchy design docs would provide the community with enough
info to lend a helping hand. Not talking about anything fancy just some
simple diagrams.
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