Learning OOP

[FurqanAhmed]

What are the things to emphasize on when learning OOP in Java, besides inheritance, polymorphism and encapsulation?

I'm through with procedural and just starting OOP, I've also done my homework on inheritance, polymorphism and encapsulation. Tell me about things that will be helpful for building application, JPS, J Beans. I'll be working mostly for front-end database applications. Yay Ghazi taray yay Pur-assrar bunday

 

[dbleyl]

Design Patterns should help - especially w/ GUI/DB stuff. Check out the stuff Robert C. Martin has at

http://www.objectmentor.com

and Bruce Eckel's thinking in patterns book

http://www.bruceeckel.com.

 

[Chrissirhc]

I haven't done much procedural so its hard for me to make a comparison. The ones you have said are very important. Other than that look at interfaces and inner classes. The rest of the stuff you mention are less oop concepts and more just bits of already existing code (I think so) also look at vectors which are basically self growing lists. For database connectivity I believe JDBC is the API for that.

I'd have browse through suns website probably.

Cheers

Chris