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Title: Low standards
Review: The beginner will be challenged by myriad inaccuracies, inconsistencies and typos. The veteran will be surprised by the author's inaccurate treatment of the examples he borrows from Go4 ("Design Patterns" / Gamma et al), and will be annoyed by the book's numerous "forward-dependencies" on Volume 2 (still unpublished!). This book fails to live up to its potential as a new catalog of design patterns, because of the author's lack of mastery both of the essence of those patterns and of their clear presentation. Having said that, the author should be praised for his ground-breaking attempt to present a comprehensive introductory book combining design patterns, java, and uml.
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