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Title: Patterns in Java: A Catalog of Reusable Design Patterns Illustrated with UML, 2nd Edition, Volume 1 by Mark Grand ISBN: 0-471-22729-3 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.93 (59 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Great Idea spoiled by lack of attention to detail
Comment: I was really excited for a Java-slanted version of the famous Design Patterns book. This should have been an easy home run but Grand let us down on the details. I went into this book knowing some about Patterns and was eager to learn more. However, after wasting my time hacking my way through incorrect diagrams and inconsistencies between code and text I am about ready to through the book out, learn C and read Gamma's book. I don't know who edited this book but they obviously didn't know much about UML or Code.
You want detail examples: Chapter Eight (Chain of Responsibility GoF95). A pretty simple pattern made difficult because of the incorrect UML diagram in the context (association arrows going the wrong direction), and the incorrect text conflicting with the code. I figured the pattern out by comparing it to Gamma's example, it is really quite simple.
The there are many more examples, especially frustrating on some of the more abstract patterns. Grand should have hired a better editor.
If you buy this book and know little about patterns I suggest you also get Gamma's book and refer to it often.
Rating: 1
Summary: Beware - Spammer on Board
Comment: About every month or so I get spammed by this author touting his great seminars so I thought I'd give his book a shot. I guess you could say that he finally wore me down. Luckily I actually purchased the book used for $2 and still think I was royally ripped off.
The book begins poorly and gets worse. Specifically, the author definitely has a pension for patronizing his audience. He speaks as though he invented Patterns and is delivering them to the masses after bringing them down from the mountains inscribed on clay tablets.
Now, I'm not a guy to worry too much about a few typos here and there. After all, mistakes are made in code and text alike. However, the author's examples are not at all practical to the point of being useless and far too many of them flat out don't work!!
I'm not so much upset about the measly two bucks as I am about the several hours lost trying to decipher what the author meant and working through the typos. Anyway, hopefully this review will save someone else the time I lost.
Rating: 3
Summary: Full of typo errors
Comment: Not as good as the GOF book, but much better than others. You'll be needing the GOF to understand plentifully the patterns. A nightmare the sea of typo errors throughout the whole book. As others reviewers wrote, the author should have paid more attention to the final draft before sending it to print.
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Title: Patterns in Java, Volume 2 by Mark Grand ISBN: 0471258415 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 11 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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Title: Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides ISBN: 0201633612 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 15 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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Title: Java Enterprise Design Patterns: Patterns in Java Volume 3 (With CD-ROM) by Mark Grand ISBN: 0471333158 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans (2nd Edition) by Ed Roman, Scott W. Ambler, Tyler Jewell ISBN: 0471417114 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: EJB Design Patterns: Advanced Patterns, Processes, and Idioms by Floyd Marinescu ISBN: 0471208310 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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