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Title: Sketchy treatments at best
Review: The patterns in here are brief, which should not be a problem. But the examples do not do the patterns justice. The first pattern I picked out used a "foo" and "bar" example -- why even bother providing an example if you cannot make it concrete? I had to read many of the patterns several times before understanding them. Overall, I found this book more difficult than the original Design Patterns. This stuff is really not that hard, and Patterns in Java doesn't do much to clarify things.
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