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Scala Design Patterns - Second Edition

By : Ivan Nikolov
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Scala Design Patterns - Second Edition

By: Ivan Nikolov

Overview of this book

Design patterns make developers’ lives easier by helping them write great software that is easy to maintain, runs efficiently, and is valuable to the company or people concerned. You’ll learn about the various features of Scala and will be able to apply well-known, industry-proven design patterns in your work. The book starts off by focusing on some of the most interesting and latest features of Scala while using practical real-world examples. We will be learning about IDE’s and Aspect Oriented Programming. We will be looking into different components in Scala. We will also cover the popular "Gang of Four" design patterns and show you how to incorporate functional patterns effectively. The book ends with a practical example that demonstrates how the presented material can be combined in real-life applications. You’ll learn the necessary concepts to build enterprise-grade applications. By the end of this book, you’ll have enough knowledge and understanding to quickly assess problems and come up with elegant solutions.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

The facade design pattern

Whenever we are building libraries or big systems, we quite often depend on other libraries and functionality. Implementing methods sometimes requires the use of multiple classes at the same time. This requires knowledge. Whenever we build a library for someone, we usually try and make it simpler for the users by assuming they do not have (and do not need) as extensive knowledge as we do. Additionally, developers make sure that components are easy to use throughout their application. This is where the facade design pattern can become useful.

The purpose of the facade design pattern is to wrap a complex system with a simpler interface in order to hide the usage complexities and ease the client interaction.

We already looked at other design patterns based on wrapping. While the adapter design pattern transforms one interface to another and the decorator...