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Input on Book Subject Matter Requested
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Geary)
Fri Dec 1 18:22:56 1995
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 11:50:05 -0700
From: David.Geary@Central.Sun.COM (David Geary)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
I'm in the (very) early stages of writing a Java book. The book will cover
object-oriented aspects of Java development with an emphasis on GUI design.
The audience I'm targeting consists of folks who have a good understanding
of the basics of OO design/development.
My original thought was to develop an application, and chronicle its
development in the book. I figured an added bonus would be to gear the
app towards something that readers would find useful. To this end, I've
considered writing a Smalltalk-like class browser and/or a Javaized OOD
diagramming tool.
Subsequently, it has occurred to me that perhaps a suite of GUI components
would be more useful to readers than an application. With the advent of
Borland/MetroWerks/etc. announcements of Java development environments, it
is very possible that their environments would make an application along the
lines proposed above obsolete, or at least less useful to readers than I had
originally envisioned.
As a result of my dilemma, I turn to the Java masses: Would you rather
see the book chronicle an application along the lines proposed above, or
a suite of GUI components? If the former, what application would you like
to see developed; if the latter, what components would you like to see
included?
Thanks.
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