Books in the SIGS: Advances in Object Technology series

A guide to the functionality and practical use of the Java Foundations Classes (JFC). This book presents intermediate and advanced techniques in exploiting the power and flexibility of JFC and the Swing component set. It includes many concrete illustrations of how to enhance the JFC architecture.

This book teaches object-oriented analysis and design from first principles and clearly explains C++ mechanisms that implement object-oriented concepts.

Walks COBOL users through the next phase of COBOL: Object-Oriented COBOL. Teaches how to integrate COBOL with object-oriented methodologies.

This book, first published in 1995, introduces CRC (Class, Responsibility, Collaborator) cards with a description of the cards and how they can be used in interactive sessions to develop an object-oriented model of an application. The author describes how CRC cards can contribute at all stages of the software lifecycle.

Written for technical managers, project leaders, and applications programmers facing decisions about design and management of large-scale commercial object-oriented software.