Design Patterns

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• Design patterns are design solutions for recurring problems in the software development.
• It's important to emphasize that it's a design technique more than implementation technique.
• Understanding the available design patterns is good (theory) but applying them in a real project needs professional experience and design skills and it's mainly the job of a Solution Architect. Seeing more examples help developing this skill.
• To truely understand design patterns, first you should understand what problems they are going to solve so that you can choose them in the real world.

Creational Patterns:

• Builder (4 roles: abstract builder + concrete builders + product) : 1, 2, 3
• Prototype (1 role: a class which implements IClonable): 1, 2
• Factory Method (2 roles: abstract product containing the factory method + concrete products): 1, 2
• Abstract Factory (5 roles: product interface + concrete products + factory interface + concrete factories + client has a method to return a product interface and accepting a factory interface): 1, 2, 3, 4
• Singleton (1 role: a class which allows only one object to be created and shared): 1, 2, 3

Structural Patterns:

• Decorator (4 roles: decorator + concrete decorators + component + concrete components): 1, 2, 3
• Adapter (3 roles: Adapter + Adaptee + Target): best article

Behavioral Patterns:

• Strategy (3 roles: strategy interface + concrete strategies + context object which utilizes strategy): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Observer (3 roles: observer interface + concrete observer + subject): 1, 2

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