Encapsulation Resources
Here are some good links outlining Encapsulation. While they refer to other languages, the ideas are basically the same and would be a good read for anyone trying to understand Encapsulation:
- The Object-Oriented Database System Manifesto
- A Pillar of Object Oriented Methodology (C++)
- The Need for Encapsulation (C#)
- Encapsulation For Dummies
Searching the web for "RPG Encapsulation" will get you some interesting results. Most of them relate to teaching RPG Programmers Java or are focused on complaining about the lack of such things in RPG. And I'm sure it goes without saying that a lot of the results were focused on VB programming for Role-Playing-Games! Still, I was able to find a couple of gems:
- Using CL & RPG Parms for Encapsulation. A little old school for my tastes, but still interesting.
- The Road from Java to RPG. I'm sure you can guess what this one is about, but it does a fair job of comparing the two languages.
- More of the Same, but about half way down the author admits you *can* do encapsulation with RPG!
My Articles
I also have two articles published at ITJungle that cover Encapsulation techniques specific to RPG:
- Encapsulating File Access in a Service Program
21 July 2004 - An introduction to encapsulation and how to implement encapsulation of a database file in a Service Program. - More on RPG Encapsulation
12 January 2005 - A follow on to the first Encapsualtion article. Discusses additional techniques such as multiple record handling.
