Design Patterns

"Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice."

• Describe concepts, not code
• Finer-grained than frameworks
• Typical description
• a pattern name such as Singleton or Reactor used to identify the pattern,
• an illustration of its structure using a UML diagram,
• a classification of the pattern as e.g. creational, behavioural, or structural,
• an illustration of the design problem that provides the motivation to use the pattern,
• an outline of the situations where the pattern can be applied,
• an outline of the pattern's participants,
• a description of how the pattern supports its objectives, and
• examples and prescriptive guidelines towards the pattern's implementation.

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