Java in Practice: Design Styles & Idioms for Effective Java

by Nigel Warren and Phil Bishop

Are you a developer or designer using Java? Are you looking to do more than build applets for the web? Do you find yourself constantly coming up against the same recurring design problems with your... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201360659
• ISBN13: 9780201360653
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Among the best books

This is definitely the best book I have come across. Looking forward to similar books from the same authors. Unfortunately this is the only one.

excellent book

This book is at the level somewhat between "java beginner" and GoF's "Design Patterns". If you are familiar with the java syntax, and want to learn more OO design techniques, this book is THE one you are looking for.

THE Essential Advanced Java Developer's Guide

Java developers who've matured to a point where Java for Dummies and Java in 21 Days become effective paper weights will find this book fills the void in advanced Java books. The Gang of Four's Design Patterns is still essential reading for language independent OO design. Java in Practice takes a lower level idiomatic approach which focuses on language specific "idioms" and design principles, as well as coding techniques.The authors discuss issues that hardcore Java developers have been already been using to develop flexible software systems. Reading this book will help you advance your Java development skills to the next level.The authors did an excellent job of structuring the book. For example, essential themes are highlighted throughout each chapter, making it much easier to understand the principles being discussed.Buy this book!Put it on your bookshelf, right next to the GOF's Design Patterns.

Excellent Java OO book

At last someone has written a Java book that concentrates on object design in detail. The first three chapters on encapsulation, inheritence and polymorphism provide the best introduction to these concepts I've read in a Java book.

An intelligent and helpful practical guide

I've read a lot of Java books and they all seem to hover around the mediocrity of online documentation. This book focuses on the practical aspects of Java. If you're asking "how can I make it happen?" then this is the right book for you.