The previous answers were accurate, but perhaps too terse. I will try to add some examples. First of all, the word “proxy” describes someone or something acting on behalf of someone else. In the computer realm, we are talking about one server acting on the behalf of another computer. For the purposes of accessibility, I … Read more
A function is a piece of code that is called by name. It can be passed data to operate on (i.e. the parameters) and can optionally return data (the return value). All data that is passed to a function is explicitly passed. A method is a piece of code that is called by a name … Read more
Model-View-Presenter In MVP, the Presenter contains the UI business logic for the View. All invocations from the View delegate directly to the Presenter. The Presenter is also decoupled directly from the View and talks to it through an interface. This is to allow mocking of the View in a unit test. One common attribute of … Read more
It’s actually not too complicated… Say you’re on domain example.com, and you want to make a request to domain example.net. To do so, you need to cross domain boundaries, a no-no in most of browserland. The one item that bypasses this limitation is <script> tags. When you use a script tag, the domain limitation is … Read more
The name reflection is used to describe code which is able to inspect other code in the same system (or itself). For example, say you have an object of an unknown type in Java, and you would like to call a ‘doSomething’ method on it if one exists. Java’s static typing system isn’t really designed … Read more
The best definition I’ve found so far is one by James Shore: “Dependency Injection” is a 25-dollar term for a 5-cent concept. […] Dependency injection means giving an object its instance variables. […]. There is an article by Martin Fowler that may prove useful, too. Dependency injection is basically providing the objects that an object … Read more