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Title: Not up to snuff
Review: Way too superficial for such a fat book. I don't understand the authors' refusal to use UML. They only use it to illustrate the few design patterns they cover. But my favorite chapter is 14 where they discuss databases. After a micro-blurb on what JDBC is, the authors tell us that a description of using that interface is out of scope of the book. They then proceed to teach us all about relational DB concepts, the building of E-R diagrams, and all about normalization. Somehow, they think that these things are within the scope of OO Design in Java.
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