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Author:   Bertrand Meyer
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Prentice Hall
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   1.692kg
ISBN:  

9780136291558

ISBN 10:   0136291554
Pages:   1296
Publication Date:   27 May 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

PART A: THE ISSUES. 1. Software Quality. 2. Criteria of Object Orientation. PART B: THE ROAD TO OBJECT ORIENTATION. 3. Modularity. 4. Approaches to Reusability. 5. Towards Object Technology. 6. Abstract Data Types. PART C: OBJECT-ORIENTED TECHNIQUES. 7. The Static Structure: Classes. 8. The Run-Time Structure: Objects. 9. Memory Management. 10. Genericity 11. Design By Contract: Building Reusable Software. 12. When the Contract is Broken: Exception Handling. 13. Supporting Mechanisms. 14. Introduction to Inheritance. 15. Multiple Inheritance. 16. Inheritance Techniques. 17. Typing. 18. Global Objects and Constraints. PART D: OBJECT-ORIENTED METHODOLOGY: APPLYING THE METHOD WELL. 19. On Methodology. 20. Design Pattern: Multi-panel Interactive Systems. 21. Inheritance Case Study: undo in an Interactive System. 22. How to Find the Classes. 23. Principles of Class Design. 24. Using Inheritance Well. 25. Useful Techniques. 26. A Sense of Style. 27. Object-Oriented Analysis. 28. The Software Construction Process. 29. Teaching the Method. PART E: ADVANCED TOPICS. 30. Concurrency, Distribution, Client-Server and the Internet. 31. Object Persistence and Databases. 32. Some O-O Techniques for Graphical Interactive Applications. PART F: APPLYING THE METHOD IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES AND ENVIRONMENTS. 33. O-O Programming and Ada. 34. Emulating Object Technology in non-O-O Environments. 35. Simula to Java and Beyond: Major O-O Languages and Environments. PART G: DOING IT RIGHT. 36. An Object-Oriented Environment. Epilogue. PART H: APPENDICES. Appendix A: Extracts From the Base Libraries. Appendix B: Genericity Versus Inheritance. Appendix C: Principles, Rules, Precepts and Definitions. Appendix D: A Glossary of Object Technology. Appendix E: Bibliography Index. Bibliography.

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BERTRAND MEYER is one of the pioneers of modern software engineering, whose experience spans both industry and academia. He has led the development of successful O-O products and libraries totaling thousands of classes. His Prentice Hall books include Object Success (an introduction to object technology for managers), Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages, Eiffel: The Language, Object-Oriented Applications, and Reusable Software. He is a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences and consultant for Fortune 500 companies, editor of the Object-Oriented Series, associate member of the applications section of the French Academy of Sciences, chairman of the TOOLS conference series, and editor of the Object Technology department of IEEE Computer.

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