New edition of a text on Java program design, updated to UML notation and featuring new sections on designing with interfaces and additional notification mechanisms. Topics include: developing an overall design-model; maximizing the usefulness of composition and inheritance; designing responsible threads; designing loose coupling among the major subsystems of a design; and inner classes for adapters. The CD-ROM contains source code, design strategies, and Together Whiteboard Edition from Object International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

In this completely updated book, internationally-respected object oriented development experts Peter Coad and Mark Mayfield bring discipline to Java development, showing how to design Java client/server apps for maximum efficiency and reliability. They review object models, scenario views, multithreading, concurrency, exceptions, and more, presenting leading-edge design techniques that are proven to work. This new edition features UML 1.1 notation throughout; six powerful new strategies for designing with interfaces; important new coverage of swing classes, design models for Enterprise Beans, inner classes, packages, Infobus architecture and much more. The CD-ROM contains the breakthrough Together/J Whiteboard Edition, a completely free, Java-based, full UML, platform-independent visual modeler for enterprise-wide software development. For any professional software developer interested in client/server programming with Java.

System requirements for accompanying computer disk: Windows 95/98, NT, Solaris, Linux, and OS/2. Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-302) and index.