Object-Oriented Software Construction (Book/CD-ROM)

BERTRAND MEYER is one of the pioneers of modern software engineering, whose experience spans both industry and academia. He has led the development of successful O-O products and libraries totaling thousands of classes. His Prentice Hall books include Object Success (an introduction to object technology for managers), Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages, Eiffel: The Language, Object-Oriented Applications, and Reusable Software. He is a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences and consultant for Fortune 500 companies, editor of the Object-Oriented Series, associate member of the applications section of the French Academy of Sciences, chairman of the TOOLS conference series, and editor of the Object Technology department of IEEE Computer.

PART A: THE ISSUES.

 1. Software Quality.
 2. Criteria of Object Orientation.
PART B: THE ROAD TO OBJECT ORIENTATION.

 3. Modularity.
 4. Approaches to Reusability.
 5. Towards Object Technology.
 6. Abstract Data Types.
PART C: OBJECT-ORIENTED TECHNIQUES.

 7. The Static Structure: Classes.
 8. The Run-Time Structure: Objects.
 9. Memory Management.
10. Genericity
11. Design By Contract: Building Reusable Software.
12. When the Contract is Broken: Exception Handling.
13. Supporting Mechanisms.
14. Introduction to Inheritance.
15. Multiple Inheritance.
16. Inheritance Techniques.
17. Typing.
18. Global Objects and Constraints.
PART D: OBJECT-ORIENTED METHODOLOGY: APPLYING THE METHOD WELL.

19. On Methodology.
20. Design Pattern: Multi-panel Interactive Systems.
21. Inheritance Case Study: "undo" in an Interactive System.
22. How to Find the Classes.
23. Principles of Class Design.
24. Using Inheritance Well.
25. Useful Techniques.
26. A Sense of Style.
27. Object-Oriented Analysis.
28. The Software Construction Process.
29. Teaching the Method.
PART E: ADVANCED TOPICS.

30. Concurrency, Distribution, Client-Server and the Internet.
31. Object Persistence and Databases.
32. Some O-O Techniques for Graphical Interactive Applications.
PART F: APPLYING THE METHOD IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES AND ENVIRONMENTS.

33. O-O Programming and Ada.
34. Emulating Object Technology in non-O-O Environments.
35. Simula to Java and Beyond: Major O-O Languages and Environments.
PART G: DOING IT RIGHT.

36. An Object-Oriented Environment.
Epilogue.
PART H: APPENDICES.

Appendix A: Extracts From the Base Libraries.
Appendix B: Genericity Versus Inheritance.
Appendix C: Principles, Rules, Precepts and Definitions.
Appendix D: A Glossary of Object Technology.
Appendix E: Bibliography Index.
Bibliography.