Scraping Your Boilerplate

The Scrap Your Boilerplate Pattern in Java

It is shown how the scrap your boilerplate design pattern, which has been presented in the functional programming community, can easily be implemented in Java. It addresses generic programming of tree traversal. Generic methods for traversing an arbitrary tree structure are presented. The actual application logic will be clearly seperated from the boilerplate traversal code. A crucial role for the basic tree traversion plays the interface Iterable, which has been added to the latest version of the Java API .

Resources

• The actual paper
• Source code from within the paper