Through encapsulation, you hide the details of a type’s implementation. In Java, encapsulation basically translates to this simple guideline: “Don’t access your object’s data directly; use ...

In the traditional Builder Pattern, a Product's encapsulation can be compromised since its compositional logic resides in another class. What if you could determine a Product's composition at run ...

New Age C++ Improving C++ Encapsulation with the Pimpl Idiom .NET and Java developers are perplexed about the indiscreet way C++ discloses private class details. Pimpl (pointer-to-implementation) ...