Using Existing Libraries Versus Writing Your Own

[Adrian Crum]

I hate reinventing the wheel. It's a waste of time. I'd rather use
someone else's wheel invention.

When programming, I'd rather do some research and find existing code
that does what I want - instead of writing my own code. The less code I
write, the less code I have to maintain.

OFBiz does a pretty good job of building on existing code libraries. But
every once in a while, we end up writing code that already exists
elsewhere. As an example, I recently removed a utility method that
duplicated a method that already existed in the Apache Commons library.

So, I'm sending this out to the developer community as a reminder:
Before you create a new method or class or framework, take some time to
see if it already exists somewhere.

-Adrian

[Ashish Vijaywargiya-5]

+1

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Ashish

Adrian Crum wrote:

> I hate reinventing the wheel. It's a waste of time. I'd rather use
> someone else's wheel invention.
>
> When programming, I'd rather do some research and find existing code
> that does what I want - instead of writing my own code. The less code
> I write, the less code I have to maintain.
>
> OFBiz does a pretty good job of building on existing code libraries.
> But every once in a while, we end up writing code that already exists
> elsewhere. As an example, I recently removed a utility method that
> duplicated a method that already existed in the Apache Commons library.
>
> So, I'm sending this out to the developer community as a reminder:
> Before you create a new method or class or framework, take some time
> to see if it already exists somewhere.
>
> -Adrian