Design patterns are formalized best practices that the programmer can use to solve common problems when designing an application or system.
Design patterns can speed up the development process by providing tested, proven development paradigms.
Reusing design patterns helps to prevent subtle issues that can cause major problems, and it also improves code readability for coders and architects who are familiar with the patterns.
Before you dive into the material, you should be familiar with various Programming/Software Design Principles.
Once you are familiar with these concepts you can start drilling down into patterns by any of the following approaches
- Using difficulty tags,
Difficulty-Beginner,Difficulty-Intermediate&Difficulty-Expert. - Using pattern categories,
Creational,Behavioraland others. - Search for a specific pattern. Can't find one? Please report a new pattern here.
If you are willing to contribute to the project you will find the relevant information in our developer wiki.
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Effective Java (2nd Edition)
- Java Generics and Collections
- Let's Modify the Objects-First Approach into Design-Patterns-First
- Pattern Languages of Program Design
- Presentation Tier Patterns
- Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power of Java 8 Lambda Expressions
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
- Spring Data
- J2EE Design Patterns
- Pattern Oriented Software Architecture Vol I-V
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