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Product Description: With a clear perspective on what a prospective object-oriented programmer needs to know, the book covers why object-oriented programming is being adopted; how object-oriented languages, classes, ADTs, inheritance and reuse work. Also features a brief overview of analysis, design and implementation issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The first guide of its kind, this manual of practical development shows programmers how to build object-oriented class libraries in a language-neutral environment. Written in a clear, easy-to-understand style, the book delivers a comprehensive explanation of what IBM's System Object Model (SOM) is and how it can be used to design and implement object-oriented applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Object oriented technology is just emerging from infancy, with a modest number of early adopters making use of it. This is a revision of an introductory book on object orientation that surveys the technology in a practical manner, with emphasis on examples, explanation and clarification of concepts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Since its first volume in 1960, Advances in Computers has presented detailed coverage of innovations in computer hardware, software, theory, design, and applications. It has also provided contributors with a medium in which they can explore their subjects in greater depth and breadth than journal articles usually allow...read more

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A guide for intermediate to advanced developers covers core Java fundamentals, advanced language features, classes, interfaces, class design, threading, and language statements.

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Especially designed to teach object oriented programming using the C++ language to those with no previous experience of programming. Throughout the text many examples are used to introduce and illustrate techniques and language features.

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A tutorial for Perl programming and the particulars of Perl syntax, as well as good style and structure and maintainability of the code, also includes advanced concepts--such as modular programming, abstract datastructures, and object-oriented programming. Original. (Intermediate). (view table of contents)

Product Description: Software Engineering with OBJ: Algebraic Specification in Action is a comprehensive introduction to OBJ, the most widely used algebraic specification system. As a formal specification language, OBJ makes specifications and designs more precise and easier to read, as well as making maintenance easier and more accurate...read more

Completely updated to cover changes in the Java 2 SDK, 1.3.1, Java for COBOL Programmers, 2/E uses COBOL examples to teach object-oriented principles and Java's syntax. Written for COBOL programmers transitioning to Java, the step-by-step examples show users how to convert COBOL's structured programming into object-oriented concepts without assuming knowledge of C or C++. New chapters expand the treatment of Enterprise Java technologies, including Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSP), and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB).

The only book you need for programming VisiBroker using Java The most widely used commercial implementation of the CORBA standard, Inprise's VisiBroker, is used by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide. Written by a team of Inprise insiders, this updated and expanded Second Edition of the #1 guide to programming VisiBroker helps Java developers quickly master the skills they need to develop more powerful and sophisticated distributed, object-oriented, client/server systems, from scratch or with existing components using VisiBroker 4. New topics covered in this edition include migrating VisiBroker 3 to version 4; the Portable Object Adaptor; implementing the Objects by Value feature; the VisiBroker Interface Repository; Dynamic Programming APIs for use with scripting; and more. CD-ROM contains VisiBroker for Java 4, VisiBroker Naming and Event Services, and complete code for all examples in the book. (view table of contents)