There seems to be a mention of "Fowler, p 60", but the
reference itself is missing. Also, a mention to the
"Design Patterns" (Gamma et all, 1994) work.

Maybe the author missed including the reference
section.

- Jayesh

--- "Scott W. Ambler" <swa@...> wrote:

> 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/
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ginitram [mailto:ginitram@...]
> > Sent: Wed 11/3/2004 12:55 PM
> > To: agilearticles@yahoogroups.com
> > Cc:
> > Subject: [agilearticles] Refactoring Java
> Code
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > This article describes the refactoring
> techniques used to improve
> > existing java code.
> >
> >
>
http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=4
> >
>
>


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