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Title: Java(tm) in Practice: Design Styles and Idioms for Effective Java by Nigel Warren, Philip Bishop ISBN: 0-201-36065-9 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 10 December, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (17 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Java OO book
Comment: At last someone has written a Java book that concentrates on object design in detail. The first three chapters on encapsulation, inheritence and polymorphism provide the best introduction to these concepts I've read in a Java book.

Rating: 3
Summary: Your (reading) mileage will vary
Comment: I've been learning, teaching, and writing about Java since JDK 1.0., but I'm not formally trained in programming. I feel my way to certain programming ideas. So if a book articulates the thoughts that float around in my own murky brain, it's a treasure.

This book does some of that. It's a useful discussion of some common OOP idioms in Java. There's enough UML to illustrate the difference between a design concept and a Java implementation. The book is also brief, and doesn't try to justify its starting point; I like that. Keeping a book short takes courage.

On the whole, however, I was done with what this book had to offer in about five hours. There wasn't much in it to make me think I'd read it again, either. Several discussions didn't quite conclude. And there were one or two points where a continued discussion was promised and didn't appear. Instead of brevity by way of elegance, I felt that probably the publisher's deadline was looming large, and they had to cut bowstrings.

So I had pretty high hopes, and I got a decent experience out of the book. I've been at this for five years, so I'm probably looking for someone to state things in a bold, new way, and perhaps that's unreasonable to expect. For the price, this book's OK.

Rating: 5
Summary: Among the best books
Comment: This is definitely the best book I have come across. Looking forward to similar books from the same authors. Unfortunately this is the only one.

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