Developing
Java Software
WORLDWIDE
SERIES IN
COMPUTER
SCIENCE
Series Editors Professor David Barron, Southampton University, UK
Professor Peter Wegner, Brown University, USA
The Worldwide Series in Computer Science has been created to publish textbooks which both address and anticipate the needs of an ever evolving curriculum thereby shaping its future. It is designed for undergraduates majoring in Computer Science and practitioners who need to reskill. Its philosophy derives from the conviction that the discipline of computing needs to produce technically skilled engineers who will inevitably face, and possibly invent, radically new technologies throughout their future careers. New media will be used innovatively to support high quality texts written by leaders in the field.
Titles coming soon Goodrich & Tamassia, Data Structures and Algorithms in Java
Kotonya & Sommerville, Requirements Engineering
Russel Winder
King's College London, UK
and
Graham Roberts
University College London, UK
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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Winder, R. (Russel)
Developing Java Software / Russel Winder and Graham Roberts.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographic references and index.
ISBN 0-471-97655-5 (alk. paper)
1. Java (Computer programming language) 2. Application software development 3. Object-oriented programming (Computer Science)
I. Roberts. Graham, 1961- . II. Title
QA76.73.J38W557 1998
005.13'3-dc21 97-35769
CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 0 471 97655 5
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