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Farewell to 'Design Techniques'

JavaWorld columnist closes with a brief history of his column, hints at what's to come

By Bill Venners, JavaWorld.com, 04/01/99

Page 5 of 5

• Flexibility as a Design Goal -- A look at different people's ideas and opinions on software design and the overall software development process
  
  
• Designing Fields and Methods -- The nuts and bolts of designing fields and methods
  
  
• Maximizing Method Cohesion -- How to chop up responsibilities into methods
  
  
• Finalization and Cleanup -- The end of object lives
  
  
• Designing With Exceptions -- When and how to use exceptions
  
  
• Thread Safety -- When and how to make classes thread-safe
  
  
• When To Bean? -- When to make classes into JavaBeans
  
  
• To Bean or Not To Bean -- Text of an e-mail debate on when to make classes into JavaBeans
  
  
• Canonical Object Idiom -- A base-level functionality for classes
  
  
• Event Generator Idiom -- An idiom that shows how to use notification in Java program designs
  
  
• Composition Versus Inheritance -- How to choose between composition and inheritance
  
  
• Designing with Interfaces -- When to use interfaces
  
  
• Designing with Dynamic Extension -- When use dynamic extension in Java programs
  
  
• Designing with Runtime Class Information -- When to use runtime class information in Java programs

A thank-you

Thanks especially to those who submitted feedback, either through e-mail, through the comment boxes at the bottom of each JavaWorld article, or via the Flexible Java Forum. The feedback, especially criticism, was very helpful.

What's next

From this point forward, my design-oriented writing will be focused on writing Flexible Java. I will be publishing the book-in-progress on my Web site as I write it, so you can follow along and, if you wish, send me feedback. If you would like to receive occasional announcements as I progress through the writing of the book, you can sign up for my mailing list.

As far as JavaWorld goes, another column is in the planning stages. In the next few months, I should return with a monthly column focused on distributed systems programming in Java, RMI, and Jini.

ENDNOTE: The small print: "Farewell to Design Techniques" article Copyright (c) 1998 Bill Venners. All rights reserved. :END_ENDNOTE

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