References

[Auer] Ken. Auer “Reusability through Self-Encapsulation.” In Pattern Languages of Program Design 1, Coplien J.O. Schmidt.D.C. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1995. Patterns paper on the concept of self-encapsulation.

[Bäumer and Riehle] Bäumer, Riehle and Riehle. Dirk “Product Trader.” In Pattern Languages of Program Design 3, R. MartinF. BuschmannD. Riehle. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1998. A pattern for flexibly creating objects without knowing in what class they should be.

[Beck] Kent. Beck Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1997a. An essential book for any Smalltalker, and a damn useful book for any object-oriented developer.

[Beck, XP] Kent. Beck eXtreme Programming eXplained: Embrace Change. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 2000.

[Fowler, UML] Fowler M. Scott. K. UML Distilled, Second Edition: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 2000. A concise guide to the Unified Modeling Language used for various diagrams in this book.

[Gang of Four] E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson and J. Vlissides. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1995. Probably the single most valuable book on object-oriented design. It’s now impossible to look as if you know anything about objects if you can’t talk intelligently about strategy, singleton, and chain of responsibility.

[Goetz] Goetz, Brian, Java Concurrency in Practice, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006. The compiler should stop anyone implementing Runnable who hasn’t read this book.

[Lea] Doug. Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1997.

[McConnell] Steve. McConnell, Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1993. An excellent guide to programming style and software construction.

[Meyer] Bertrand. Meyer, Object Oriented Software Construction. 2 ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1997. A very good, if very large, book on object-oriented design. Includes a thorough discussion of design by contract.

[Sadalage] Pramodkumar. J. Sadalage, Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design (Addison-Wesley Signature Series) (Hardcover)

[Woolf] Bobby. Woolf, “Null Object.” In Pattern Languages of Program Design 3, Martin, R. Riehle. D. Buschmann F. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1998. A discussion on the null object pattern.