TAMING C++

Pattern Classes and Persistence for Large Projects

Jiri Soukup

The relationships and cooperation of C++ classes are central issues 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.

Highlights

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 in 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.

About the Author
Dr. Jiri Soukup is President of Code Farms, Inc., a company promoting better ways to design software. Its product, the C++ Data Object library, has built-in pattern classes and automatic persistency. Dr. Soukup was one of the key contributors to several state-of-the-art CAD projects. He was director and a founding member of Cadence Design Systems, managcr of AT&T's VLSI layout system, and one of the key developers of a printed board layout system currently sold by IBM.

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