Choose Delegation Over Inheritance, Really?
Tuesday, 5:00 PM CDT - BALLROOM 3-4
We all have read good books that tell us to choose delegation over inheritance. Yet, we often choose inheritance? Why is that?
In this presentation we will discuss the reasons, from the OO design point of view when we should choose inheritance and when we should choose delegation. Then we will discuss why we tend to lean towards inheritance. We will then model a problems to use delegation, using Java (plus some libraries), Groovy, and Kotlin and achieve fluent implementations of delegation. We will conclude with good recommendations on when to choose which approach.
About Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
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