Software design patterns

Design patterns is a general reusable solution to some commonly occurring problem in software design.

Creational patterns

Creational patterns deal with object creation mechanisms, trying to create objects in a manner suitable to the situation.

Abstract factory

The abstract factory pattern provides a way to encapsulate a group of individual factories that have a common theme.

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Factory method

the Factory method pattern deals with the problem of creating objects (products) without specifying the exact class of object that will be created.

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Builder pattern

The Builder pattern separate the construction of a complex object from its representation so that the same construction process can create different representations

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Prototype pattern

Prototype pattern is used when the type of objects to create is determined by a prototypical instance, which is cloned to produce new objects

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• Lazy initialization pattern is the tactic of delaying the creation of an object, the calculation of a value, or some other expensive process until the first time it is needed
• Object pool is a set of initialised objects that are kept ready to use, rather than allocated and destroyed on demand
• Singleton pattern restrict instantiation of a class to one object

Structural pattern

Structural Design Patterns ease the design by identifying a simple way to realize relationships between entities.

Adapter pattern

The adapter pattern adapts one interface for a class into one that a client expects

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Bridge pattern

The bridge pattern decouple an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently.

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Composite pattern

The composite pattern is a tree structure of objects where every object has the same interface.

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• Java Design Patterns Learning Design Patterns
• w:Aggregate pattern: a version of the Composite pattern with methods for aggregation of children
• w:Decorator pattern: add additional functionality to a class at runtime where subclassing would result in an exponential rise of new classes
• w:Extensibility pattern: aka. Framework - hide complex code behind a simple interface
• w:Facade pattern: create a simplified interface of an existing interface to ease usage for common tasks
• w:Flyweight pattern: a high quantity of objects share a common properties object to save space
• w:Proxy pattern: a class functioning as an interface to another thing
• w:Pipes and filters: a chain of processes where the output of each process is the input of the next
• w:Private class data pattern: restrict accessor/mutator access

Behavioral pattern

behavioral design patterns identify common communication patterns between objects and realize these patterns.

Strategy pattern

The strategy pattern defines a family of algorithms, encapsulate each one, and make them interchangeable. Strategy lets the algorithm vary independently from clients that use it.

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Template method pattern

The template method pattern describes the program skeleton of a program in an operation, deferring some steps to subclasses.

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• w:Chain of responsibility pattern: Command objects are handled or passed on to other objects by logic-containing processing objects
• w:Command pattern: Command objects encapsulate an action and its parameters
• w:Interpreter pattern: Implement a specialized computer language to rapidly solve a specific set of problems
• w:Iterator pattern: Iterators are used to access the elements of an aggregate object sequentially without exposing its underlying representation
• w:Mediator pattern: Provides a unified interface to a set of interfaces in a subsystem
• w:Memento pattern: Provides the ability to restore an object to its previous state (rollback)
• w:Null Object pattern: designed to act as a default value of an object
• w:Observer pattern: aka Publish/Subscribe or Event Listener. Objects register to observe an event which may be raised by another object
• w:State pattern: A clean way for an object to partially change its type at runtime
• w:Specification pattern: Recombinable Business logic in a boolean fashion
• w:Visitor pattern: A way to separate an algorithm from an object
• w:Single-serving visitor pattern: Optimise the implementation of a visitor that is allocated, used only once, and then deleted

Concurrency pattern

Concurrency patterns are one of the types of design patterns. Examples of this class of patterns include:

• w:Active Object
• w:Balking pattern
• w:Double checked locking pattern
• w:Guarded suspension
• Leaders/followers pattern
• Monitor Object
• w:Read write lock pattern
• w:Scheduler pattern
• w:Thread pool pattern
• w:Thread-Specific Storage
• w:Reactor pattern

Leaders followers pattern

Examples of this class of patterns include:

• Monitor object
• Read write lock
• Scheduler
• Thread pool
• Thread-specific storage
• Reactor