Object-Oriented System Development

There is more to "object-oriented" than application programming. Object-oriented methods have revolutionized the way analysts, designers, software engineers, project managers, and tool builders construct entire software systems. Object-Oriented System Development will help you to better understand the role of analysis and design in the object-oriented development process. Rather than subscribing to a particular object-oriented method, this book gives step-by-step instructions on how to put key object-oriented concepts to work in software construction. Many examples, including a full banking system, are developed throughout the book to illustrate the process of object-oriented software development from analysis, through design, and into implementation. With this book, you will learn how to: *use core object-oriented notions such as inheritance and encapsulation in analysis and design; *construct system models; *map designs to distributed-processing frameworks; *use prototypes more productively; *address system resource and performance issues; *use common tools and services; and *reuse declarative models, design architectures, and code.Although geared to software professionals involved in the development of medium, large, and distributed systems, Object-Oriented System Development is equally valuable to anyone who wants to gain a detailed technical perspective on the object-oriented software development process. "This book (Object-Oriented System Development) is for many different software professionals: analysts, designers, implementors, software engineers, project managers, students and teachers, and others." - Computing Reviews 020156355XB04062001

Dennis de Champeaux is an independent consultant assisting software development organizations in making the shift to object-oriented methods. He was previously software project manager and scientist at HP Labs. Doug Lea is one of the foremost experts on object-oriented technology and software reuse. He has been doing collaborative research with Sun Labs for more than five years. Lea is Professor of Computer Science at SUNY Oswego, Co-director of the Software Engineering Lab at the New York Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications, and Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Syracuse University. In addition, he co-authored the book, Object-Oriented System Development (Addison-Wesley, 1993). He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire. Penelope Faure is president of Faure, Inc., a software engineering consulting firm.