Rocky Mountain Software Symposium

May 4 - 6, 2007 - Denver, CO

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500 Flatiron Blvd
Broomfield, CO 80021

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Brian Pontarelli

Founder of Inversoft

Brian Pontarelli is the founder and president of Inversoft, a Colorado based software company. In addition to Inversoft, Brian works on many open source projects including Struts, Savant and Java.net commons. In the past, he was the president of the Chicago Java User Group and an enterprise architect for Orbitz.

Brian has been programming for many years and works primarily with Java and Ruby. He has published various articles in both print and online magazines about Java, J2EE security, Java Server Faces and NIO.

Presentations

Writing Good APIs

Writing APIs is fairly easy but writing an API that is usable and lives longer than a few days is hard. This talk discusses methodologies, tips and tricks for writing good APIs.

During the course of this talk we'll cover many of the common forms of APIs including base types, domains, services and toolkits and how to approach writing each type. We'll also cover the different between internal and external APIs and how to protect your code from your clients.