Instructor's Guide

• The book provides an introduction to object-oriented programming, covering design, languages, and foundational issues. It pays attention to issues such as reuse, component technology, design patterns and in particular the application of object technology in Web applications.
• It contains guidelines for developing object-oriented applications. Apart from practical examples it provides an overview of development methods as well as an introduction to UML, the standard for object-oriented modeling. In particular design patterns will act as a recurrent theme, or rather as a perspective from which examples and solutions will be discussed.
• Distributed object technology will be a major theme. The book provides an introduction to CORBA that allows the student to gain hands-on experience with developing CORBA applications. It also provides a discussion of competing technologies, and in particular it will elucidate the distinction between component technology and distributed objects. Examples in Java and C++ will be included.
• Another major theme of the book is to establish precisely the relation between the guidelines and prescriptions emerging from software engineering practice on the one hand, and the constraints and insights originating from theoretical research. In the book attention will be paid to foundational issues as well as the pragmatical solutions the designers of object-oriented languages have chosen to realize their ideas.
• Many of the notions introduced and problems discussed are clarified by short programs, mostly in Java, some in C++. The examples cover GUI development, business process reengineering and Web applications. No extensive knowledge of the programming languages used is required since a brief tutorial on a number of object-oriented programming languages, including C++, Smalltalk, Eiffel and Java, is given in the appendix.
• The material is organized around slides. The slides occur in the text in reduced format, but are also available in Powerpoint and Netscape Presentation format. Each slide captures some important notion or concept which is explained and commented upon in the accompanying text. An online Instructor's Guide is available that provides hints for presenting the slides and answers to the questions posed at the end of each chapter.
• The entire book, including the software from the examples and the Instructor's Guide is available electronically, on the accompanying CDROM as well as on the Internet. The electronic version contains links to other material on the Internet. The electronic version may be accessed also in slide mode that allows for presenting the material in a classroom equipped with a beamer.