contents

 

  

Front matter

forewords

preface

acknowledgments

about this book

about the author

about the cover illustration

dramatis personae

  

Part 1. Flexibility

  1 Complexity of object-oriented programming

  1.1  OOP design: Classic or classical?

The design phase

UML 101

Explaining each piece of the class diagram

The implementation phase

  1.2  Sources of complexity

Many relations between classes

Unpredictable code behavior

Not trivial data serialization

Complex class hierarchies

  2 Separation between code and data

  2.1  The two parts of a DOP system