Object-Oriented Methods: Pragmatic Considerations

by James J. Odell and James Martin

Focusing on implementing procedures, this text offers practical knowledge for building systems using an object-oriented philosophy. It shows how object-oriented methods and techniques can be used to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0136308643
• ISBN13: 9780136308645
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Provide a analytic framework to study OO systematically

In other books, you can learn what object-oriented is and how to apply object-oriented method. This book provide an perspective to explore what are the elements in a object-oriented system. this perspective show you a valuable analytic framework, you can analysis UML, object methods and object-oriented system with it.

A Must Read

Martin and Odell - an experienced team demonstrates object oriented concepts to the theoretically educated audience.Without the enlightning read of 'The OO Foundation' (Martin, Odell) the buyer might encounter difficulties to follow the discussions.As the title clearly states, the authors discuss the applications, mostly pragmatic, of oo concepts and methods. This includes the realization of oo concepts in programming languages, their limitations, best practices.The book is structured as a cook-book with powerfull how-tos not only for the application design but also for tasks of a software development process.Please note that this book does not define any methods nor does it specify a software development process. It gives you a pragmatic view based on the rich experience of the authors - even today, six years after the book was first published.A must read for every serious software developer.

Excellent explanation and easy to read

I recommend it to people wishing to strongly become familiar with OO. In comparison with "UML Users Guide", "OO Analysis and Design with C++ examples", "Applying patterns with UML ", "UML Distilled" this book explains OO at the good fundamental level and explanation is very sequential. You will understand OO approach step by step. However, this book is not for novice. Some experience is necessary. If you want just to get few basic concepts and start programming, then this book is not for you too. System Analysts, Architects and Team Leaders must read it.

Now more than ever

This book is great for enterprise modeling--as well as understanding the formal foundation of OO analysis.

Develops framework / terminology for OO analysis & design

Has useful techniques for defining a problem domain unambigously. This helps ensure that teams working on the project share a common understanding of the problem analysis. Techniques help discussion of mapping conceptual model to physical design and evaluating tradeoffs. Techniques were used to develop effective communication mechanisms between database designers, application developers, and performance engineers.