author : Arthur J. Riel

Contents:

1. The motivation for object-oriented programming
2. Classes and objects: the building blocks of the object-oriented paradigm
   • roles versus classes
3. Topologies of action-oriented versus object-oriented applications
   • the god class problem
4. The relationships between classes and objects
   • uses • containment versus attributes
5. The inheritance relationship
   • generalisation • polymorphism • hiding representation • optional parts
6. Multiple inheritance
   • misuse
7. The association relationship
   • by attributes • by a third party • association versus containment
8. Class-specific data and behavior
   • metaclasses • useful abstract classes
9. Physical object-oriented design
   • wrappers • persistence • memory management • shallow copies • concurrency • using non OO implementation langauges
10. The relationshiop between heuristics and patterns
11. The use of heuristics in object-oriented design