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An object-oriented design text that's student oriented too! Now updated to reflect the innovations of Java 5.0, Cay Horstmann's Object-Oriented Design & Patterns, 2nd Edition continues to offer a student-oriented guide to object-oriented design. Drawing from his extensive experience as a programmer and teacher, Horstmann helps you appreciate the value of object-oriented design principles, and gives you a context for applying these principles and techniques in your own designs. Throughout the text, outstanding pedagogy, carefully developed exercises and examples, and a strong emphasis on problem solving make object-oriented design principles accessible to readers with limited programming experience. Cay Horstmann's Object-Oriented Design & Patterns, 2nd Edition: * Integrates the use of Java 5.0 constructs throughout, including generics and the java.util.concurrent library. * Presents high-interest examples, including ones from the Java 5.0 library and user-interface programming. * Uses concepts such as interfaces, inner classes, reflection, and multithreading to introduce advanced Java language concepts. * Encourages you to master topics in object-oriented design, user-interface programming, and practical software development techniques. * Illustrates design patterns and their application using the Swing user interface toolkit and the Java collections library. * Introduces programming tools such as BlueJ, javadoc, and JUnit. * Provides a c course in Java for readers who know C++. Other Wiley books by Cay Horstmann Big Java, Second Edition, 0-471-70615-9 Java Concepts, Fourth Edition, 0-471-69704-4 Big C++ (with Timothy Budd), 0-471-47063-5 Computing Concepts with C++ Essentials, Third Edition, 0-471-16437-2