Re: Book on OO Component Design?

From: Steve (steve_a_haigh_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/29/03 

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:38:33 +0000

kenandeva wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good book about building systems out of OO SW
> components? I have some fine books on OO design, but now that I'm on a
> project that needs to build a system by creating components, I'm finding
> that there are aspects to such a process that distinguish it from simply
> designing an OO system. Our goal is to make components that will
> facilitate the system that we are designing now, but that will be able
> to be reused in the future to build systems in a similar product
> domain. Easy to say, tough to do.
>
> One more note: the system we are making is a real-time system, with most
> parts being "soft" real time and a small subset being hard real time. I
> say this because that rules out using things like JAVA, J2EE and things
> like that. For now we'll be using C++.
Have you considered Ada?

>
> Ideally, I'd like to find a book that incorporates the use of patterns
> and UML and contains sample case studies, but mainly, I just want it to
> be a great, pragmatic book.

Easy. "Pattern of Enterprise Application Architecture" by Martin Fowler.

It does not discuss real time systems though, maybe someone else can
recommend something specific to this area.

I should be on commission for the number of times I've recommended this
book:-)

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