design patterns : Java Glossary

design patterns

familiar patterns that keep coming up in coding problems. After zooming in on the nuts and bolts and syntax of Java coding it’s a help to zoom out and see ways of "extending" it to bigger problems.

A design pattern is a standard solution to a class of problems, but the solution is a little too complex to stomp out with a single class or a code generator.

People, however, can generate the standard solutions after having seen a few example solutions. Humans have some magical ability to pull out the common abstraction, even when they can’t understand how they do it, and can’ reformulate the abstraction into concrete general purpose code.

Standard patterns

Fundamental Patterns
Delegation, Functional Design, Interface
Creational Patterns
Abstract Factory, Builder, Factory Method, Prototype, Essence, Singleton.
Structural Patterns
: Adapter, Bridge, Composite, Decorator, Facade, Flyweight, lazy initialisation, Object Pool, Prototype, Proxy, Role.
Behavioural Patterns
Chain of Responsibility, Command, Interpreter, Iterator, Mediator, Memento, Observer, Single Serving Visitor, State, Strategy, Template Method and Visitor.
Model-View-Controller
Swing keeps data models separate from the GUI (Graphic User Interface) display part.
Emulate keyword-default Parameters
Various schemes for dealing with large numbers of parameters.

EE (Enterprise Edition) Patterns

EE also has design patterns that are documented in the book Core EE Design Patterns. These

Oracle’s Miscellaneous documentation on EE design patterns

include:

Oracle’s Miscellaneous documentation on DAO: Data Access Object
Service to worker
Dispatcher View
Front Controller
View Helper
Synchronize (Déjà vu) Token

Books

recommend book⇒Design Patterns

by:

Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides

978-981-235875-2

paperback

(born: 1961 age: 50)

978-0-201-63361-0

hardcover

publisher:

Addison-Wesley

published:

1994-11-10

The publisher is Addison Wesley. Sometimes called “the gang of four book” They define design patterns as: descriptions of communicating objects and classes that are customised to solve a general design problem in a particular context. A design pattern names, abstracts, and identifies the key aspects of a common design structure that make it useful for creating a reusable object-oriented design. The design pattern identifies the participating classes and instances, their roles and collaborations, and the distribution of responsibilities. Easy to wrap your mind around, eh? Design Pattern people are in love with the power of abstraction and generality. You might even say they prefer to impress rather than inform. However, somehow you are going to have to learn this stuff, even if only to get into the heads of the guys who designed the AWT and Swing. Try starting with the code samples in this Design Patterns book.

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recommend book⇒Head First Design Patterns

by:

Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra

978-0-596-00712-6

paperback

publisher:

O’Reilly

published:

2004-10-25

Presents patterns in a visually hip way using Java. Highly recommended book, more useful than the academic and dry gang of four.

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recommend book⇒Design Patterns Java Workbook

by:

Steven John Metsker

978-0-201-74397-5

paperback

(born: 1959 died: 2008-02-08 at age: 48)

publisher:

Addison-Wesley

published:

2002-04-04

More approachable than the other Design Pattern books. You can look at the source code examples from the book. The author died of cancer.

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recommend book⇒Design Patterns In Java

by:

Mark Grand

978-0-471-25839-1

paperback

publisher:

John Wiley & Sons

published:

1998-09-28

A more accessible book, partly because the examples are all in Java and partly because he has less invested in persuading you how important and brilliant their discoverers are.

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recommend book⇒Java Design Patterns

by:

James William Cooper

978-0-201-48539-4

paperback

publisher:

Addison-Wesley

published:

2000-02-13

A tutorial

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recommend book⇒Applied Java Patterns

by:

Stephen A. Stelting, Olav Maassen

978-0-13-093538-0

paperback

publisher:

Prentice Hall

published:

2002-01-05

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recommend book⇒Java Design: Building Better Apps and Applets

by:

Peter Coad, Mark Mayfield and Jon Kern

978-0-13-911181-5

paperback

(born: 1953-12-30 age: 58)

publisher:

Prentice Hall

published:

1998-12

A more general book, but does a better job of explaining how Java interfaces can be used to create better design patterns.

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recommend book⇒Data Modeling for Information Professionals

by:

Bob Schmidt and David Warren

978-0-13-080450-1

hardcover

publisher:

Prentice Hall

published:

1998-07-30

Good at describing how to break problems down into an OO solution without any regards to implementation.

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recommend book⇒Java in Practice : Design Styles and Idioms for Effective Java

by:

Nigel Warren and Phil Bishop

978-0-201-36065-3

hardcover

publisher:

Addison-Wesley

published:

1998-12-10

Good at describing how to break problems down into an OO solution without any regards to implementation.

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recommend book⇒Essential Java Style: Patterns for Implementation

by:

Jeff Langr

978-0-13-085086-7

paperback

publisher:

Prentice Hall

published:

1999-08-16

It’s not about the patterns people usually talk about (design, architecture etc) but about low-level coding patterns and good practices.

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recommend book⇒Core EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies

by:

Deepak Alur, John Crupi, Dan Malks

978-0-13-064884-6

paperback

publisher:

Pearson Education

published:

2001-06-26

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recommend book⇒Object-Oriented Programming and Java

by:

Danny C. C. Poo and Derek B. K. Kiong

978-981-308396-7

paperback

publisher:

Springer

B000YYVEH0

kindle

published:

1999-07-22

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recommend book⇒Refactoring : Improving the Design of Existing Code

by:

Martin Fowler, Kent Beck [Contributor], John Brant [Contributor], William Opdyke, Don Roberts

978-0-201-48567-7

hardcover

(born: 1963 age: 48)

B000OZ0N4Y

kindle

publisher:

Addison-Wesley

published:

1999-07-08

Discusses how reorganising code into standard patterns makes it easier to maintain. Highly recommended. Practical before and after examples of cleaning up stinking code.

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recommend book⇒Effective Java: Second Edition

by:

Joshua J. Bloch

978-0-321-35668-0

paperback

(born: 1961-08-28 age: 50)

B000WJOUPA

kindle

publisher:

Prentice Hall

published:

2008-05-28

No design patterns, just generic advice on good Java programming style. This is considered the best explanation of generics, even though it has just one chapter on generics. People claim it all came clear after reading his explanation. Not to be confused with his eariler Effective Java Programming Language Guide. book website

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recommend book⇒Object-Oriented Design Heuristics

by:

Arthur J. Riel

978-0-201-63385-6

hardcover

publisher:

Addison-Wesley

published:

1996-05-10

Great book for arguing for easier-to-maintain architectures.

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recommend book⇒Core EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, Second Edition

by:

Deepak Alur

978-0-13-142246-9

hardcover

publisher:

Prentice Hall

B000OZ0N4E

kindle

published:

2003-05-10

Design patterns to use in EE.

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recommend book⇒Small Memory Software: Patterns for Systems with Limited Memory

by:

James Noble, Charles Weir

978-0-201-59607-6

hardcover

publisher:

Addison-Wesley

published:

2000-11-09

Techniques for conserving RAM in embedded systems and handheld devices. Much of this is the techniques used in the early computers with limited RAM.

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Oracle’s Developer Documentation on EJB Design Patterns

Bill Venner’s list of recommended books on design patterns and related topics
Books on coding style
bottom up
Concurrency Patterns
Design Pattern
Doug Lea’s Implementing Design Patterns in Java
EJB Design Patterns
GOF
Hillside Patterns
Map-Reduce design pattern
PerfectJPattern: Java design pattern components based on Eiffel
refactoring
top down

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design patterns : Java Glossary

Standard patterns

Fundamental Patterns

Creational Patterns

Structural Patterns

Behavioural Patterns

Model-View-Controller

Emulate keyword-default Parameters

EE (Enterprise Edition) Patterns

Books