If you’ve been developing software long enough, you might recall a time before object-oriented (OO) development went mainstream when software development proved much more difficult than it is today.

To be honest I am rather new to the whole design pattern thing, but the book by the gang of four tickled me pink, and improved enourmously a lot of the things I was working on. <BR><BR>What I am ...

We discuss some of the most common design patterns in Java and how they can help you solve common coding issues. Learn more. A design pattern is a well-established and documented solution to a common ...

In of this three-part series introducing design patterns, I referred to Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Design. This classic was written by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph ...