Good Design, Part III: Refactoring

Check out Good Design, Part III: Refactoring by Rob Myers. Here is an excerpt:

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public static ProductBean installProduct(String p) {

ProductBean pi = new ProductBean(p);

Connection c = new Connection(“$Updates”);

for (Record x : c.getAllForKey(“PLUG_INS”, “P_NAME”, p)) {

// validate serial number

if (“SNUM”.equals(x.getString(“RECORD_TYPE”))) {…

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