10 docs tagged with "encapsulation"

Use stable façades and information hiding to manage complexity, evolve safely, and enforce boundaries

Encapsulate a request as an object allowing you to parameterize clients with commands

Assign responsibility to the class that has the information needed to fulfill it

Master the Principle of Least Knowledge to reduce coupling and improve maintainability in complex systems.

Capture and externalize an object's state without violating encapsulation

Apply modularity principles, information hiding, and sound module design to reduce coupling, improve cohesion, and enable independent system evolution.

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Allow an object to alter its behavior when its internal state changes

Define a family of algorithms, encapsulate each, and make them interchangeable

Master the fundamentals of systems thinking for software architecture: components, connectors, configurations, interfaces, and abstractions to reason about change, risk, and evolution.