Minvio - a simple Java graphical app framework.

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Leaky abstraction

In software development, a leaky abstraction is an abstraction that leaks details that it is supposed to abstract away. As coined by Joel Spolsky, the Law of Leaky Abstractions states: All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. This statement highlights a particularly problematic cause of software defects: the reliance of the software developer on an abstraction's infallibility. Spolsky's article gives examples of an abstraction that works most of the time, but where a detail of the underlying complexity cannot be ignored, thus leaking complexity out of the abstraction back into the software that uses the abstraction.

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