After 14 months of writing the Design Techniques column, the time has come for me to bring the column to a close. I'm saying farewell -- for a while.
In this final installment of Design Techniques, I discuss what I aimed to accomplish with this column and with my upcoming book based on this material, Flexible Java. I discuss the software development process, software quality, and what role the guidelines and idioms presented in this column can play in helping achieve quality. I give links to all of the previous articles that made up this column, as well as to related discussion-forum topics. Finally, I look ahead to the future.
