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An essential technique in software design is to decompose a system into distinct, manageable abstractions. However, there is little value in decomposing a piece of software into several parts if each part depends on all the other parts in a tangled mess of interactions.
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Robillard, M.P. (2019). Encapsulation. In: Introduction to Software Design with Java. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24094-3_2
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