Article,
Fluent Interfaces
International Journal on Information Technology, 1 (2): 4 (September 2011)
Abstract
Modern Enterprise Software Systems entail many
challenges such as rapidly changing business scenario,
increase in complexity, and shorter time to market and
providing business agility without compromising on the
quality. Ensuring productivity, quality, consistency, cost
effective, reduced cycle time have become a mandate for the
teams dealing with modern enterprise software systems.
Fluent Interfaces is a powerful technique, which help in
taming the programming complexities, reducing boilerplate
code, increasing the quality and thereby improving the
productivity and cycle time. In this paper we will describe
some of our explorations in Fluent Interfaces and why we feel
the notion of Fluent Interfaces is a useful technique for
enterprise software system. We are currently focusing on two
things – a technique for determining fluency of an API and
secondly a methodology for designing a fluent interface. We
will also share some of the benefits and limitations that we
observed during our experimentation. We conclude this paper
with a note on the current work that we are doing and the
future directions.
