Object-Oriented Software Construction (Book/CD-ROM)  (English, Mixed media product, Meyer Bertrand)

For any software engineer, developer or programmer interested in O-O software and programming.

This long-awaited revision retains the clarity, practicality and innovations that helped the first edition sell over 75,000 copies since 1988. Now over 1200 pages with a CD ROM full of object tools, this edition is fully revised and considerably expanded, making it THE definitive reference on the most promising software development in 30 years.

Salient Features

Topics covered include:

• Concurrency
• O-O Databases
• Encapsulation
• Persistence
• Dynamic Binding
• Design by Contract
• Inheritance
• Abstract Data Types
• Typing
• Client-Server
• The Internet.
• most comprehensive coverage of O-O technology ever (1250 pages with CD ROM) — from one of the founders.
• an epic O-O book destined to become the source for object technology.
• Introduces object technology gradually, comparing it to non-object-oriented approaches, and explaining the benefit of every object-oriented mechanism for software quality and productivity.
• Uses a high-level notation (based on Eiffel) to introduce the concepts, and explains how to implement them in various environments and languages such as C++, Java, Smalltalk, Ada 95, and even non-0-0 languages such as C, FORTRAN, Pascal and Ada 83.
• Contains an abundance of examples and several in-depth case studies.