Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Four- and- a- Half Levels of Granularization -- 3 Instantiating Objects -- 4 Scalability -- 5 Serialization of Java Objects -- 6 Messages and Asynchronous Processing -- 7 Collections and Searching for Objects -- 8 Configuration and Logging -- 9 Computer Algorithms -- 10 Distributed Internet Services -- 11 Project Management -- A Making Decisions Quantifiable -- B About the CD- ROM -- C The GNU General Public License (GPL) -- Index.