Progressive Disclosure in API Design with example
You have probably heard about the progressive disclosure principle of UI design. In Progressive disclosure design you defer advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone. It has been successfully argued that the same principles can be and should be applied to API design, which are consumed by humans (programmers).
In a recent development, Sun Microsystem has joined hands with mobile phone majors Orange, Vodafone Group and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications to make it easier and cheaper for the developers to bring Java programs to mobile phones. On Tuesday, Sun Microsystem released the new open-source testing tools in JavaOne developers conference in San Francisco. The company revealed that it was upgrading the five-year-old Java Verified program used to certify Java ME programs on mobile devices. This comes as a relief for the developers tired of seamless unproductive testing.
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