Restricted Method Access

This page is an Extract Page refactoring to serve as a landing page whenever I talk about restricting access to methods to only certain objects.

• Method Regulation
• Friend Class Pattern
• JUID – Just Use Interfaces, Dummy
• Package-private / internal assembly / friend access
• Discouraging method names – instead of getProductId(), say breachEncapsulationOfProductId()
• Stringent code reviews – weaker version of Method Regulation
• Double Dispatch – multimethods for languages that don’t have them
• Builder pattern – similar to JUID

This is the list as of October 2008. If I come up with more, or find some in the archives I missed, I will add them as they come.