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Title: Patterns in Java, Volume 2 by Mark Grand ISBN: 0-471-25841-5 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 11 March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.57 (14 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A matter of expectation
Comment: My impressions:
The introduction (UML short and SW Life Cycle) is excellent. I especially liked the collaboration diagrams.
The 'GRASP' (patterns) present good guidelines that can improve your overall class design. (Which classes to introduce, how to distribute the tasks to be performed ...). To get the idea, it is of advantage, when you have previously designed a larger project yourself (seeing that there are many solutions that will result in different gains and tradeoffs). The GRASP help you to explain why.
'GUI Design' improves your sensitiveness in creating user-friendly GUIs (choosing the appropriate interface design, presenting not more than 7 chunks, how and when to deliver feedback, ...).
The chapters 'Organizational Coding' and 'Code Robustness Patterns' explain techniques how to write clean and maintainable code (like the usage of adapter classes, constants in interfaces, finally statements ...). Those will already be known by todays more experienced programmers. But only because of this, they will neither harm anyone nor will they be trash anytime! (Sorry, this refers to very rude other reviews - but it really has to be told.)
From the 'Coding Optimization Patterns' i liked double-checked locking and the (maybe already known) lookup table technique.
The last chapter 'Testing Patterns' is the best general introduction into testing i've seen so far (black, white box, unit, integration , system, regression, acceptance and clean room testing).
Conclusion:
When you come from the GoF book searching for further explanations buy 'Patterns in Java Volume 1' (notice the much improved 2nd Edition!), otherwise you'll be disappointed, here.
The problem that Volume 2 has, is probably the (missed) target group. But it is not a bad book and Mr Grand knows what he writes, believe me.
Rating: 2
Summary: Fluff, Fluff, Fluff....
Comment: In my opinion, code examples are just as important as the text that explains it. Unfortunately, the author didn't think so. Going through the book and visiting the companion website to get the source code to run was a waste of time.
For the most part, the code didn't work at all! It didn't matter what compiler version you make use of; I used 4 different versions of the JDK. A book is supposed to save you time when you are trying to learn. This book doesn't fit the bill. I still had to go to the web in order to get working examples of the patterns mentioned in the book.
I'm sure the author know's what he talking about. I just think that he should prove it by writing programs that are tested and that compile before shipping it off in a book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Glad to find I'm not alone about this book
Comment: After reading the GOF patterns book I felt I was ready to tackle on more patterns and bought this book. This book made me feel dumb for a while for after repeated readings I still couldn't understand what the author is talking about. Finally decided to research on what other people thought about this book. Glad to find mostly negative comments in this review section for it proves i'm not dumb.
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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: Patterns in Java: A Catalog of Reusable Design Patterns Illustrated with UML, 2nd Edition, Volume 1 by Mark Grand ISBN: 0471227293 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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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: 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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Title: The Unified Modeling Language User Guide by Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson ISBN: 0201571684 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 30 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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