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Title: Stating the obvious - A very poor sequal
Review: The author has tried to create a book from very few usable patterns by padding with an irrelevant introduction for a second volume (First fifty pages) then filling the centre section with mind numbingly obvious GUI and coding patterns. The last section on testing patterns gave me the feeling that the only thing the book missed was a 100 page "Introduction to Java" and a "Scraping the bottom of the barrel" pattern.The books lack of pattern names at the top of the page and a sensible method of quick access to patterns plauged the Vol. 1 as well. Experienced programmers (Ie, those not learning the basics of Java) will not find this book useful enough to justify the purchase and will be very disappointed if they expect design patterns of Gamma, et al standard.
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