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Published: Aug 11 2008 / 09:40

The Capability Pattern - Future-Proof Your APIs
Here is a simple pattern which you can use to make your APIs extensible, even by third parties, without sacrificing your ability to keep backward compatibility.
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cowardlydragon replied ago:

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API interface definitions themselves impose inherent constraints, and therefore are not future proof.

There is no silver bullet.

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