Thanks to those who have answered my question about the meaning of "convenience method". These answers confirm the impression I get from the usages I have seen.

Just to exercise my understanding, "convenience" is opposed to "core" or "indispensable". A convenience method does not add functionality to an interface; what it does could be achieved some other way.

That's clear enough, sort of. But still, in a sense it seems like every method and every interface could be called merely a convenience, since in every case you could do the job some other way. An operating system is just a set of convenience calls, because REAL PROGRAMMERS talk straight to the machine, you know.

Rich



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