Design Patterns Java™ Workbook

Appendix C. UML at a Glance Figure C.4. Depictions of objects indicate the objects' names and/or types. A sequence diagram shows ...

Appendix C. UML at a Glance Figure C.5. A statechart diagram shows transitions from state to state. Show a state in a rectangle ...

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Glossary APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE The interface, or set of calls, that a system makes publicly available. ASSAY An anal ...

Glossary CONSTANT A field that is static and thus widely accessible and final, with a fixed value. CONTEXT An object that contai ...

Glossary DIMENSION An aggregation of a physical measure's exponents of length, mass, and time. DIRECTED GRAPH A graph in which e ...

Glossary FIREWORK Any combustible composition that may burn, fly, or explode, providing entertaining visual and aural effects. F ...

Glossary HOPPER A container that dispenses chemicals, usually into a machine. HYPE Overexcitement about a technology's potential ...

Glossary JDK See [JAVA DEVELOPMENT KIT] JUNIT A testing framework, written by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck, that lets you implement ...

Glossary LOOSE COUPLING A comparatively small and well-defined amount of responsibility that interacting objects bear to one ano ...

Glossary MOLE A number—Avogadro's number—defined as the number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon 12. The beauty of this number is t ...

Glossary OPERATION A specification of a service that can be requested from an instance of a class. PARALLEL HIERARCHY A pair of ...

Glossary RANDOM CASE A STRiNG like thIS wHOSE ChARActErs MAY bE uPPeR OR LOwERcaSe, AT RANdom. REFACTOR To change code to improv ...

Glossary ROOT In a tree, a distinguished node or object that has no parent. SEQUENCE DIAGRAM A drawing that shows a flow of mess ...

Glossary STAR A compressed pellet of an explosive mixture, usually part of an aerial shell or a Roman candle. STATE A combinatio ...

Glossary TITLE CASE A String Like This Whose Characters Are Uppercase If They Follow Whitespace. TREE An object model that conta ...

Glossary WORKBOOK A student's book of problems and exercises. WIP See [WORK IN PROCESS] WORK IN PROCESS Partially manufactured g ...

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Bibliography Coplien, James O., and Douglas C. Schmidt, eds. Pattern Languages of Program Design. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. ...

Bibliography Martin, James, and James J. Odell. 1995. Object Oriented Methods—A Foundation. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. ...