https://bravenewgeek.com/tag/retrospective/Recent content in Retrospective on Brave New GeekHugoen-usThu, 27 Dec 2012 16:04:16 -0600https://bravenewgeek.com/modularizing-infinitum-a-postmortem/Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:04:16 -0600https://bravenewgeek.com/modularizing-infinitum-a-postmortem/<p>In addition to getting the code migrated from <a href="https://code.google.com/p/infinitum-framework/">Google Code</a> to <a href="https://github.com/infinitumframework">GitHub</a>, one of my projects over the holidays was to modularize the Infinitum Android framework I’ve been working on for the past year.</p> <p>Infinitum began as a SQLite ORM and quickly grew to include a REST ORM implementation,  REST client, logging wrapper, DI framework, AOP module, and, of course, all of the framework tools needed to support these various functionalities. It evolved as I added more and more features in a semi-haphazard way. In my defense, the code was organized. It was logical. It made <em>sense</em>. There was no method, but there also was no madness. Everything was in an appropriately named package. Everything was coded to an interface. There was no duplicated code. However, modularity — in terms of minimizing framework dependencies — wasn’t really in mind at the time, and the code was all in a single project.</p>