Taming C++: Pattern Classes and Persistence for Large Projects - Hardcover

Soukup, Jiri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201528266 ISBN 13: 9780201528268

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1994

Synopsis

The relationships and cooperation of C++ classes is a central issue in large project development, in testing, and in maintenance. Taming C++ takes a fresh look at the complex organization typical for large C++ systems and shows how this problem can be minimized by avoiding cyclic dependencies between classes, and by implementing the original object-oriented design so that it remains visible in the final code. This book shows you, through extensive examples, how to design and write C++ code using a new type of class--the pattern class--which helps you produce layered class organization with limited cyclic dependencies. The book then focuses on another problem of large project development--persistent data--integrating it with its general approach and providing copious implementation details unavailable elsewhere. Features *Emphasizes code readability achieved through better class organization. *Teaches how to improve software architecture. *Shows how pattern classes encapsulate the high level object-oriented design. *Promotes layered structuring of class relationships.*Compares and contrasts design methodologies, class libraries, approaches to testing, and treatments of persistence. *Explains how persistent data can be used as fast databases (frameworks) residing virtual memory. Taming C++ is written for programmers, designers, and software managers. It will also be useful to applications developers, researchers, and advanced students. While the techniques presented here can improve any application, they are specifically important for large projects. Programs from this book can be accessed via anonymous ftp at: ftp aw.com under aw.computer.science in a file entitled soukup; the code is also available on disk from Addison-Wesley Publishing Company; send requests to soukup@aw.com. Comments to the author can also be sent to this same address. 0201528266B04062001

About this title

About the Author

About Jiri Soukup

Jiri Soukup is President of Code Farms, Inc., a companypromoting better ways to design software. Its product, the C++Data Object library, has built-in pattern classes and automaticpersistency. Dr. Soukup was one of the key contributors ofseveral state-of-the-art CAD projects: director and a founding member ofCadence Design Systems, manager of AT&T's VLSI layout system, andone of the key developers of a printed board layout systemcurrently sold by IBM.

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From the Back Cover

The relationships and cooperation of C++ classes is a central issue in large project development, in testing, and in maintenance. Taming C++ takes a fresh look at the complex organization typical for large C++ systems and shows how this problem can be minimized by avoiding cyclic dependencies between classes, and by implementing the original object-oriented design so that it remains visible in the final code. This book shows you, through extensive examples, how to design and write C++ code using a new type of class--the pattern class--which helps you produce layered class organization with limited cyclic dependencies. The book then focuses on another problem of large project development--persistent data--integrating it with its general approach and providing copious implementation details unavailable elsewhere.

Features

1. Emphasizes code readability achieved through better class organization.
2. Teaches how to improve software architecture.
3. Shows how pattern classes encapsulate the high level object-oriented design.
4. Promotes layered structuring of class relationships.
5. Compares and contrasts design methodologies, class libraries, approaches to testing, and treatments of persistence.
6. Explains how persistent data can be used as fast databases (frameworks) residing virtual memory.

Taming C++ is written for programmers, designers, and software managers. It will also be useful to applications developers, researchers, and advanced students. While the techniques presented here can improve any application, they are specifically important for large projects.

Programs from this book can be accessed via anonymous ftp at: ftp aw.com under aw.computer.science in a file entitled soukup; the code is also available on disk from Addison-Wesley Publishing Company; send requests to soukup@aw.com. Comments to the author can also be sent to this same address.

0201528266B04062001

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201528266
• ISBN 13: 9780201528268
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432