Week 9: Observer Pattern, MVC, Presentation Layer, S.O.L.I.D.

In this lecture, we look at foundations of UI and GUI programming. We look at the Observer pattern and at the Model View Controller concept and how it is implemented in Java with Swing. Finally, we look at the S.O.L.I.D. principles to write better OO programs.

Slides
More information about UI programming:
- An example of how to implement the Observer pattern in Java without using java.util.Observable and java.util.Observer.
- Window builder for Eclipse
- Java Tutorials: Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing
- Tutorial for writing multi-window Swing applications (see also the implementation in the library application)
- Robert C. Martin: "The Principles of OOD". The first 5 principles are the S.O.L.I.D. principles
- Article introducing the MVC concept in Smalltalk
Programming examples as Eclipse projects
- A skeleton implementation of the library application with user interface and persistence layer.
- A simple Observer pattern example
- A simple Drawing application
- The vending machine application

On to Week 8: Good Design and Design Patterns Part of Lecture Plan

Hubert Baumeister

April 23, 2018