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If you’re creating complex User Interface components within Share, you might, like us, have found that they can quickly become unwieldy to manage. To tackle this we devised a structured design patter...

If you’re creating complex User Interface components within Share, you might, like us, have found that they can quickly become unwieldy to manage. To tackle this we devised a structured design pattern by which the complex control could be broken into multiple simpler YUI components. This pattern is similar to the one already used for other share components but allows a much finer grained breakdown of components. The benefits of adopting this approach are: The initial overall design falls into place very quickly; Reuse of similar parts of the user interface is straightforward which reduces code duplication; Specifying a well-defined interface for each component allows straightforward splitting of the workload across multiple developers; and Components can easily communicate with each other in a structured way without breaking encapsulation. In this presentation I will introduce the pattern, and use live coding to demonstrate usage of the pattern to create an example component.