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Title: Maybe an OK book for VERY beginners to programming in Java
Review: Despite volume One's syntactical and logical errors as pointed out by some of the reviewers, I actually liked volume 1. This sequel was so disappointing to me that I returned it as soon as I could.If you're looking for more *design* patterns, then this is NOT the book for you. If you feel that a "Dialog" is a pattern (that's right, any plain-old dialog) or if you've never used a Java interface as a holder for constants, then give this book a try; otherwise don't bother.I actually didn't find a single pattern that was interesting to me. It was either stating the obvious or completely useless. There was a whole section of "Testing" patterns at the end of the book which I didn't even bother to look at.I really don't understand the author. Did he run out of *useful* patterns to document.The only folks that might benefit from this book are extreme beginners to Java and programming in general. For the rest of us, there are other patterns books.
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