Exploring the Nature of Code

Context Driven Development (CDD) summarizes in many ways the design ideas I have previously written about in this blog:

• The Context Switcher pattern adds the concept context to OO. This pattern is now improved in CDD so that state and behaviour are fully separated.
• The Chained Creator pattern is used in CDD to improve the way state is built.
• CDD has been inspired by the State guard pattern. I regret that I called this a pattern even if it solves an important problem. The cleaner separation between state and behaviour in CDD is more refined and solves the same problem in a more elegant way!

I started to play around with these patterns to see if they could be improved and used together and found that they could. I also found that manually maintaining all the code needed to integrate the different parts was both difficult and tedious!

When I came up with the idea to let the code generator Laja solve the integration problems I realized that I had something! Read more about the CDD design paradigm here.