bibliography

[poeaa] Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Martin Fowler. higher level sw patterns recommended but getting old

[gof] Design Patterns, GOF. classical must-reading and must-have

[ap] Analyses Pattern, Martin Fowler. A rare book in this field - highly recommended especially for medical or financial oriented software analysts or architects

[posa] Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Buschmann et al. more patterns.

[phatch] Pattern Hatching, John Vlissides. More insights - add-on, new insights to Design Pattern

[bmuml] Business Modeling with UML, Eriksson et.al. Nice book, tries to cover a broader variety of patterns (development, business, human interaction) - successful book, but I would favor Fowlers.

[om] Object Models: strategies, patterns and applications, Peter Coad. Simpler, By Example style book.

[okhb] Das objektorientierte Konstruktionshandbuch, Heinz Züllighoven. Unfortunately only in German. It is the best book for the WAM-called software architecture/view. recommended

[aup] Applying UML and Patterns, Craig Larman. An UML/patterns/process cross over. Probably a good book for a beginning software technician/manager with interests in OO.

[plop] Pattern Languages of Program Design (Series). Lots of reading for pattern fans. Some important, some interesting sometimes waste of time..

[ooad] Object-oriented Analysis and Design, Grady Booch. A bit outdated, but still a classical. More technical in comparison with Rumbough or Jacobson books

[oose] Object Oriented Software Engineering, Jacobson. The inventor of Use Cases in its classical work. Good, but this topic is typically well covered in lots of newer books about UML.

[umlug] The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, Booch et al. Despite its name more an notation description you wont learn ood, but how to dray syntactically correct diagrams.

[refactor]Refactoring, Martin Fowler. Cannot recommend this highly regarded book. Realizing the importance of refactoring is one thing - but a complete book about moving methods and variables is not very interesting.

[extrp] Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck. From the propagator of XP. I can agree with most of his ideas and practices - though my preferred way would be more alike an adaptive or agile process.

[ooa] Object Oriented Analysis, Peter Coad. I still like this book. Simpler Methodology and Notation makes it a good starting point for learning OO. Two companions OOD and OOP available. Cannot recommend OOD though. OOP uses Smalltalk and C++ for all its examples - so if you are interested in a comparison of these two this book is a natural fit.

[iddd] Implementing Domain-Driven Design, Vaughn Vernon, recommendation Java

[jp] Java Pitfalls, Daconta et al. Not as good as Effective C++ - but serving the same purpose.

[ejp] Enterprise Java Beans, Monson-Haefel. Thorough coverage of EJB technology. Perhaps lacking some real world examples. My opinion: do not use ejb (pre ejb 3)

[gj2] Graphics Java 2 Vol 2, David Geary. Programming GUI-applications with Swing

[tij] Thinking in Java, Bruce Eckel - still a good read.

[jtep] Java Tools for eXtreme Programming, Hightower. Written docs about ant, junit and affiliates. Do not expect anything about methodology though. OUTDATED

[jpc] Java Programming with Corba, Vogel et al. Best book for corba with Java (OUTDATED note: corba is dead)

[eojs] The Elements of Java Style, Vermeulen, et al. Why should you invent new ones, try the google styles too..

[deadl] The Deadline, Tom de Marco. Easy and entertaining reading. Myths and truths about software projects a must read.

[pw] Peopleware, Tom de Marco

[j4f] Just for fun, Linuz Torvalds. A biography of the famous creator of Linux