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Packaging Java libraries to be "IDE friendly"

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Packaging Java libraries to be "IDE friendly"

Mark Watson
May 22, 2008
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Packaging Java libraries to be "IDE friendly"

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I have been working on packaging some of my (mostly) research code into four libraries (a picture), three that depend on a forth.

My concern is mostly "Java IDE kung-fu": users of these libraries (mostly just me :-) only want the highest level APIs to show in popup completion lists and the entire set of implementation classes remain invisible. The solution is easy: a public API class with implementation classes in the same package with package-ony (i.e., neither public or private) visibility.

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