5.2. A Data Language Example
Consider a coffee company that creates a monthly brochure that promotes certain coffees. The marketing director types a list each month of coffees that she wants the brochure to mention, and she sends the list to a creative writer elsewhere in the department. This writer has a small, homegrown application that reads the file and provides a user interface with links to other information, specifically a data warehouse with demographics about the sales of each coffee in the file. This application has been plagued with defects, especially around the reading of the input file. Your job is to simplify the reading of this file. The marketing director has flatly refused to change how she enters the file and will not listen ...
Get Building Parsers with Java™ now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
