Recommended books/readings for OOP

[Jagdish Shinde]

Hi Ranchers,
I am looking for some books/readings on OO programming.
I have quite heard about Thinking in Java and HF Design Patterns.

Would like to hear your experience about some of the books you may have read!

A nice read on Multi threading is also appreciated.


Thanks.

[Campbell Ritchie]

How about Object-Oriented Design in Java (Mitchell Waite Signature Series) by Bill Mccarty, Stephen Gilbert? Nice book, and since it was printed in 1998, you should be able to pick up a second-hand copy for a good price. Some bits have gone out of date, but it's still useful. A newer edition would be well worth getting.
How about Object-Oriented Software Construction by Bernard Meyer (Prentice-Hall)? Another old book (2000), by a very entertaining and opinionated author. Very rude about Java, but most of his criticisms have been corrected since the book was printed. Not specifically about Java, but about another language.
Have a look in our books review page. I reviewed such a book last year, but thought McCarty and Gilbert was better.
You can pick up Thinking in Java 3rd edition free on the internet, just by searching for it. Can't remember where, but try www.mindview.net. I don't think there was that much about object design in it.
For threading, try the Java™ Tutorials, or Brian Goetz's book on Java concurrency in practice.

[Sebastian Janisch]

I found Head First Design Patterns quite helpful. While learning useful Design patterns, it also provides lots of design principles and technques.

Also, digging into frameworks is a great way to a) learn another framework and b) along the way learn design structures, since well done frameworks always have some pretty amazing design approaches.

I find the Struts 2 framework amazing in terms of modularity, reusability and it's general approach.

[Jagdish Shinde]

Thanks Campbell, thanks Sebastian for your response.