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Design Patterns: Abstraction and Reuse of Object-Oriented Design

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Ralph E. Johnson,

John M. VlissidesAuthors Info & Claims

ECOOP '93: Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming

Pages 406 - 431

Published: 26 July 1993 Publication History

Abstract

We propose design patterns as a new mechanism for expressing object-oriented design experience. Design patterns identify, name, and abstract common themes in object-oriented design. They capture the intent behind a design by identifying objects, their collaborations, and the distribution of responsibilities. Design patterns play many roles in the object-oriented development process: they provide a common vocabulary for design, they reduce system complexity by naming and defining abstractions, they constitute a base of experience for building reusable software, and they act as building blocks from which more complex designs can be built. Design patterns can be considered reusable micro-architectures that contribute to an overall system architecture. We describe how to express and organize design patterns and introduce a catalog of design patterns. We also describe our experience in applying design patterns to the design of object-oriented systems.

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Design Patterns: Abstraction and Reuse of Object-Oriented Design
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Object oriented languages
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Client-server architectures

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