July 4th, 2008 | by matthew.wells |
I was recently studying patterns for the Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java EE 5 exam and I realised that I was really only familiar with a small proportion of them. I’d owned the seminal GOF Design Patterns
book for 8 years and the Core J2EE Patterns book for five years, but I was still only really familiar with the most commonly referenced patterns.
What interested me even more was that once I started to study them, many of them represent very simple concepts that I’d been using in my designs for years. Having studied the approach of the Head First Design Patterns book (highly recommended!), I wondered whether it might be possible to write short, self describing examples of each pattern that could get the fundamental concept across in a quick and memorable way. I am going to give it a go and post them onto this blog. If they help you to grasp the concept of even one new pattern then I’d love to hear from you!
