8.2. Good Practices

One goal of this tutorial is to help you design an application that:

• Uses sound patterns when integrating with WAF services.

• Can be packaged and installed cleanly in environments other than your own.

One important consideration in developing your own application is namespace. It's important to pick a well-qualified name for the domain of your application and then to use this qualifier uniformly throughout your code. For the sample application we develop in this guide, we always use the com.example.binder namespace for our PDL, Java, and other resource files.

There will be comments along the way telling you how to avoid pitfalls and where to take extra care.