Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects? Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:28:38 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <4dWdnRF6pOQcUJTSnZ2dnUVZ_vidnZ2d@earthlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 22:21:47 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="qwFw1g9RsQ6TkML5yezG9A"; logging-data="13348"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19kqard+n39ASpJ6Bfljvjd7vjyJnSrBbU=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20111110 Icedove/3.0.11 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:t5EoorDgG9uAgBv0K2LT3K2JQuU= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:11144 On 01/09/2012 02:30 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote: > On 01/08/2012 01:22 PM, Novice wrote: >> Patricia Shanahan wrote in >> news:4dWdnRF6pOQcUJTSnZ2dnUVZ_vidnZ2d@earthlink.com: >> >>> On 1/8/2012 8:41 AM, Novice wrote: >> >> Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Obviously, I'm going to need to >> increase the size of my Java library and allocate some time for >> reading all >> all of these things.... >> >> But in the meantime, are there any general rules I can use to make these >> decisions for code I am developing now? Or do I really need to master >> several books first? >> > Now that you are sufficiently interested in data modelling and software > design methodologies: here is a good, fast, cheap jumping in point. > > It will even do Swing databinding with some extra work (I gather). > Someone may want to start with designing the UI and then add the data model.