Re: Large Java classes wanted

Let me try to be clarify what I'm doing.  My research involves programmatically detecting groups of methods and attributes within a class that are highly associated/cohesive.  I want to reduce the amount of programmer effort involved in the Extract Class refactoring that you're describing.

Regards,
Keith Cassell

--- In [email protected], J Arrizza <cppgent0@...> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Heinrich Breedt
> <heinrichbreedt@...> wrote:
> You will use two basic refactorings: Extract Method and Extract Class.
> You will use Extract Method most of the time, but that's just a
> stepping stone to the real big-bang-for-buck workhorse, Extract Class.
> 
> The basic thing to realize is that a very large class is a set of
> smaller classes intertwined together. And that a class is a cohesive
> set of methods that associate strongly with each other and associate
> (very) strongly with a small set of variables.
> 
> 1) The primary strategy to use is:
> 
> a) isolate one member variable of the large class and extract it into
> a private class as a public variable
> ...




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