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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 bridge design pattern

Some applications can have multiple different implementations of a specific functionality. The implementations could be in the form of different algorithms or something to do with multiple platforms. The implementations tend to vary often and they could also have new implementations throughout the life cycle of a program. Moreover, the implementations could be used in different ways for different abstractions. In cases like these, it is good to decouple things in our code, or else we are in danger of a class explosion.

The purpose of the bridge design pattern is to decouple an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently.

The bridge design pattern is quite useful in the cases where the abstractions or the implementations could vary often and independently. If we directly implement an abstraction, variations to the abstraction...