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POHave we given up on the idea of code reuse?
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copied!<p>A couple of years ago the media was rife with all sorts of articles on how the idea of code reuse was a simple way to improve productivity and code quality.</p> <p>From the blogs and sites I check on a regular basis it seems as though the idea of "code reuse" has gone out of fashion. Perhaps the 'code reuse' advocates have all joined the SOA crowd instead? :-)</p> <p>Interestingly enough, when you search for 'code reuse' in Google the second result is titled:</p> <p>"Internal Code Reuse Considered Dangerous"!</p> <p>To me the idea of code reuse is just common sense, after all look at the success of the apache commons project!</p> <p>What I want to know is:</p> <ul> <li>Do you or your company try and reuse code?</li> <li>If so how and at what level, i.e. low level api, components or shared business logic? How do you or your company reuse code?</li> <li>Does it work?</li> </ul> <p>Discuss?</p> <hr> <p>I am fully aware that there are many open source libs available and that anyone who has used .NET or the Java has reused code in some form. That is common sense!</p> <p>I was referring more to code reuse within an organizations rather than across a community via a shared lib etc. </p> <p>I originally asked;</p> <ul> <li>Do you or your company try and reuse code?</li> <li>If so how and at what level, i.e. low level api, components or shared business logic? How do you or your company reuse code?</li> </ul> <p>From where I sit I see very few example of companies trying to reuse code internally? </p> <p>If you have a piece of code which could potentially be shared across a medium size organization how would you go about informing other members of the company that this lib/api/etc existed and could be of benefit? </p>

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