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Ontology driven creational design patterns as parameterized and reusable components

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Amrita Chaturvedi,

T. V. PrabhakarAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review, Volume 14, Issue 1

Pages 6 - 19

https://doi.org/10.1145/2600617.2600618

Published: 01 March 2014 Publication History

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We have explored the use of a generic ontology component to separate and encapsulate the design pattern logic of the GoF creational design patterns. We used a unique generic ontology as a runtime component in the creational patterns and then analyzed and compared the implementations with those of traditional GoF creational patterns. We concluded after experimental analysis that ontology driven solutions to creational design patterns not only mitigate the drawbacks identified in the creational patterns but also make the patterns a plug and play parameterized and reusable component whereby the desired objects can be created on the fly. Once the pattern parameters i.e. the participant classes are fed into the pattern ontology, the pattern functionality embedded within the ontological component becomes ready to use. This not only decouples the pattern logic from application logic but also decouples the pattern participant classes from each other. Thus the patterns become reusable even at the implementation level.

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Ontology driven creational design patterns as parameterized and reusable components
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Patterns
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Client-server architectures
      2. Software architectures

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Reviewer: Birol O. Aygun

Software design patterns, especially creational design patterns, have been of special interest to the software development community since their systematic formulation in the Gang-of-Four (GoF) publication [1]. However, many factors specifically related to creational patterns, as well as pattern usage in general, have prevented their widespread use. This paper identifies many of these factors. The main subject of the paper is an ontology-driven approach for using creational design patterns, in which all the GoF creational patterns are implemented in an ontology comprising a generic ontology and an ontology manager. The implementation of several patterns is then described, including textual descriptions and unified modeling language (UML) diagrams, followed by a detailed description of the builder pattern, including Java code and a comparison of this ontology-based implementation with a traditional implementation. The two patterns are then compared using the JArchitect tool. The results show that there are fewer dependencies between classes in the ontology-based implementation. The advantages and disadvantages of separating the logic of the design pattern from that of the pattern itself are then discussed and summarized in the conclusion. While there is a very good description of the authors' ontology-based approach with several examples, one is left waiting for an evaluation of this approach by a traditional development group, describing their experience with ease of use, benefits gained, and more specific questions, such as the performance of the ontology-based code in real-life use cases. Hopefully, these results are forthcoming. Nevertheless, the current publication should be very interesting for design pattern users, especially among Java developers. Online Computing Reviews Service

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ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review Volume 14, Issue 1

March 2014

56 pages

ISSN:1559-6915

EISSN:1931-0161

DOI:10.1145/2600617

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Sung Y. Shin
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