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Title: Should be called "swing patterns on windows"
Review: Virtually all 23 examples are based on swing and awt. The discussions are mostly a swing lovefest. This for me is a huge distraction. Patterns are a big enough challenge in addition to learning java client programming, which I have no interest in. Events and listeners, in my view, are very specialized and leave me wondering where these patterns may fit into the type of programming I do (xml/xsl, ejb, servlets).The Windows format, glaring for the rmi example(fortunately already did it on unix), was only a minor short comming in comparison.However, I found "design patterns explained" to be one of the best programming books I have ever read.
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