Summary
A table of one-liners to help summarize the design patterns in this website.
Pattern | Description |
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Abstract Factory | Adds an abstraction over many other related objects that are created using other creational patterns. |
Adapter | An alternative interface over an existing interface. |
Bridge | The Bridge pattern is similar to the Adapter pattern except in the intent that you developed it. |
Builder | A creational pattern whose intent is to separate the construction of a complex object from its representation so that you can use the same construction process to create different representations. |
Chain of Responsibility | Pass an object through a chain of successor handlers. |
Command | An abstraction between an object that invokes a command, and the object that performs it. Useful for UNDO/REDO/REPLAY. |
Composite | A structural pattern useful for hierarchical management. |
Decorator | Attach additional responsibilities to an object at runtime. |
Facade | An alternative or simplified interface over other interfaces. |
Factory | Abstraction between the creation of an object and where it is used. |
Flyweight | Share objects rather than creating thousands of near identical copies. |
Interpreter | Convert information from one language to another. |
Iterator | Traverse a collection of aggregates. |
Mediator | Objects communicate through a Mediator rather than directly with each other. |
Memento | Save a copy of state and for later retrieval. Useful for UNDO/REDO/LOAD/SAVE. |
Observer Pattern | Manage a list of dependents and notifies them of any internal state changes. |
Prototype | Good for when creating new objects requires more resources than you need of have available. |
Proxy | A class functioning as an interface to another class or object. |
Singleton | A class that can be instanced at any time, but after it is first instanced, any new instances will point to the original instance. |
State | Alter an objects behavior by changing the handle of one of its methods to one of its subclasses dynamically to reflect its new internal state. |
Strategy | Similar to the State Pattern, except that the client passes in the algorithm that the context should then run. |
Template Method | An abstract class (template) that contains a method that is a series of instructions that are a combination of methods that can be overridden. |
Visitor | Pass an object called a visitor to a hierarchy of objects and execute a method on them. |
Remember that design patterns will give you a useful and common vocabulary for when designing, documenting, analyzing, restructuring new and existing software development projects now and into the future.
Good luck and I hope that your projects become very successful.
Sean Bradley