Loosely Coupled Development

In object-oriented design, defining object classes that are loosely coupled is a good thing. It means that a class can do its job without having to know much about the implementation details of neighboring or remote classes and the way they perform their tasks. All the class needs to know is the signature (that is, methods and properties) of the class it requires the services of. In the material world, this means that changes can be made to one class very easily without creating a ripple effect of required changes elsewhere in the application environment.

XMLC supports a loosely coupled model in more ways than one. We've established that the DOM view of the markup page and the ability to dynamically load DOM templates ...

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