This design pattern is usually a close friend of the Composite design pattern that we discussed in Chapter 3, Understanding Structural Patterns. It can either extract data from a complex tree-like structure or add behavior to each node of the tree, much like the Decorator design pattern.

So, my plan, being a lazy software architect, worked out quite well. Both my mail-sending system from Builder and my request-answering system from Chain of Responsibility worked quite well. But some developers still begin to suspect that I'm a bit of a fraud.

To confuse them, I plan to produce weekly emails with links to all the latest buzzword articles. Of course, I don't plan to read them myself, just collect them from some popular technology sites.