Yes. There should also be a reference, IMHO, to www.refactoring.com as well.

Not referencing existing work, particularly in spectacularly obvious cases
like this, is just poor writing IMHO. I review book manuscripts every so
often and I'm often astounded by the lack of references in many books.

- Scott

At 09:09 AM 11/4/2004, you wrote:

>Overall, not a bad introductory article. However, the lack of a reference to
>Fowler's seminal book on refactoring (nor to any other work on refactoring
>nor any of the many existing refactoring tools) bothers me. It leaves the
>interested reader nowhere to go but Google.
>
>BTW, there is nothing specific to java in the article.
>
>Steven Gordon
>http://sf.asu.edu/
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> This article describes the refactoring techniques used to improve
> existing java code.
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> http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=4
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