A design pattern encapsulates the knowledge of object-oriented designers into re-usable artifacts. A design pattern is a descriptive device that fosters software design re-use. Th...
Steve MacDonald, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer...
The formal specification of design patterns is widely recognised as being vital to their effective and correct use in software development. It can clarify the concepts underlying ...
The field of software patterns has seen an explosion in interest in the last three years. Work to date has been on the recognition, cataloging, and finding of patterns with litt...
Owen L. Astrachan, W. Garrett Mitchener, Geoffrey ...
Design patterns have been used in object-oriented frameworks such as the IBM San Francisco framework, Apple's Rhaspody, OpenStep, and WebObjects, and DIWB. However, few guide...
There is an undeniable demand to capture already proven and matured object-oriented design so that building reusable object-oriented software does not always have to start from scr...