Software Engineers Handbook/Life Cycle/Design/Patterns

A software design pattern is a general reusable solution to a problem that repeats itself in software design within a given context. It is not a finished design that can be transformed directly into code, and constitutes a description or template for a problem that can be used in many different situations. Software design patterns are formalized best practices that have to be implemented in applications.1. Introduction to Spring Framework A part of the software design patterns are object-oriented design patterns that show relationships and interactions between classes or objects without specifying the final application objects that are involved. Patterns that imply object-orientation or more generally mutable state, are not as applicable in functional programming languages. Software design patterns reside in the domain of modules and interconnections. At a higher level there are architectural patterns that are larger in scope. These usually describe an overall pattern followed by an entire system. http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/Principles_and_Patterns.pdf Design Principles and Design Patterns Martin Robert C. Robert C. Martin 2000 Important design pattern types are Behavioural patterns Concurrency patterns Creational patterns Structural patterns See also Design Patterns in Software Engineering References 2 Software design pattern