about the book

• Covers real-world commercial and public-domain frameworks:
  MacApp, ET++, Taligent's Frameworks, Unidraw, InterViews (precursor of Fresco), and Prograph

• Illustrates how the technology is used in applications (e.g., MFC from Microsoft) and languages (e.g., Prograph from Prograph International)

• Introduces and explains the ideas in plain English

what's inside

Two sample chapters are available for download.

about the author

The principal author, Ted Lewis, has designed and developed various object-oriented frameworks in C++ over the last five years. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computer and a prolific author. In this book, Ted is joined by a team of frameworks experts from Apple, IBM, Taligent, and from smaller companies and universities. Erich Gamma and Andre Weinand are the creators of the ET++ framework. Larry Rosenstein was on the MacApp team at Apple. All three are, and Glenn Andert was, with Taligent, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of frameworks. John Vlissides is the inventor of Unidraw, a framework for graphics editors. He and Paul Calder are co-developers (with Mark Linton) of the InterViews user interface framework for X11. Vlissides and Gamma are coauthors of a recent book on OO design patterns. Wolfgang Pree has developed framework-centered software for several projects and is the author of another recent patterns book. Kurt Schmucker, is a well-known book author and proponent of object technology.