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Java Design Patterns Articles

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2002/jw-0913-designpatterns.html

Article: “A Look at the Composite Design Pattern,” by David Geary. Discusses the composite pattern (diagram), and the composite pattern and Struts tiles.

An Inside View of the Observer

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2003/jw-0328-designpatterns.html

Article: “An Inside View of the Observer,” by David Geary. Discusses the observer pattern, how the observer pattern works (diagrams), Java 2 SDK and the observer pattern, anonymous inner classes, the JavaBeans event handler, observers that can veto, implementing the observer pattern and more.

Navigate the Deceptively Simple Singleton Pattern

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2003/jw-0425-designpatterns.html?

Article: “Simply Singleton: Navigate the Deceptively Simple Singleton Pattern,” by David Geary. Discusses the singleton pattern, test singletons, multithreading considerations, synchronization, performance enhancement, a thread-safe singleton implementation, use of a registry, using reflection, encapsulate a registry, classloaders, and serialization.

Façade Clears Complexity

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2003/jw-0530-designpatterns.html?

Article: “Façade Clears Complexity,” by David Geary. Discusses a description of design patterns (diagram), Swing’s built-in façade pattern: JOptionPane, a diagram of the JOptionPane, a Swing application façade, using façades to create a localized dialog, and the ApplicationSupport façade.

Adapters Let Disparate Systems Work Together

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2003/jw-0926-designpatterns.html?

Article: “Adopt Adapter: Understanding How Adapters Let Disparate Systems Work Together,” by David Geary. Discusses the document object model (DOM), JTree, Model-View-Controller (MVC), the user interface (UI) builder, a file explorer, and the adapter pattern.

Design Patterns for Web Programming

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Article: “Design Patterns for Web Programming,” by Al Williams. Discusses using the Model View Controller (MVC), what is MVC? MVC and the Web, and the benefits of MVC.

Erich Gamma on Flexibility and Reuse

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Article: Erich Gamma on Flexibility and Reuse: A Conversation with Erich Gamma,” May 2005, by Bill Venners. Discusses the importance of reusability, the risk of speculating, and the problem with “frameworkitis.”

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