Java Design patternn...

[Anna Madhusudhanan Natanagopalan]

Hi
Can any one tell me which is the good book for java design patterns?
Is there any difference between the James W and GOF? I have the pdf copy of James and html page of GOF. Which one is the best?
Thanks and regards
Anna madhusudhanan

[Prashant Satarkar]

Hi,
James W Cooper book is very good as it has convered the examples to java based. The book has explained the concepts very clearly. That surely is a good read. At times, in examples, the book has used swign widely so, for someone like me who has not really worked on swing, it takes a lot more to get the examples working.
For solving this purpose, and to make examples more readable and coming from day to day life. I am writing a tutorial on java design patterns. You can find that on following link.
http://www.allapplabs.com/java_design_patterns/java_design_patterns.htm
Best Wishes,
Prashant

[Blake Minghelli]

I would recommend "Core J2EE Patterns" by Alur et al. (ISBN 0131422464)

[Jessica Sant]

Originally posted by Blake Minghelli:
I would recommend "Core J2EE Patterns" by Alur et al. (ISBN 0131422464)

I second Blake's suggestion. Its an excellent book.

[Stan James]

Bruce Eckel's Thinking In Patterns does all the GoF patterns in Java. I only browsed a couple patterns, and didn't think he added much to the GoF, just Java examples. But it's free: http://64.78.49.204/

[Stefan Wagner]

I would recommend the original.

[Stan James]

I don't know how I forgot to mention Robert Martin's Agile Software Development. He describes a set of OO principles. These aren't the same scale or scope as patterns, but they're great things to understand. He also demonstrates test first coding and emergent architecture. Great book!