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Hands-On Design Patterns with Java

By : Dr. Edward Lavieri
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Book Image

Hands-On Design Patterns with Java

2 (1)
By: Dr. Edward Lavieri

Overview of this book

Java design patterns are reusable and proven solutions to software design problems. This book covers over 60 battle-tested design patterns used by developers to create functional, reusable, and flexible software. Hands-On Design Patterns with Java starts with an introduction to the Unified Modeling Language (UML), and delves into class and object diagrams with the help of detailed examples. You'll study concepts and approaches to object-oriented programming (OOP) and OOP design patterns to build robust applications. As you advance, you'll explore the categories of GOF design patterns, such as behavioral, creational, and structural, that help you improve code readability and enable large-scale reuse of software. You’ll also discover how to work effectively with microservices and serverless architectures by using cloud design patterns, each of which is thoroughly explained and accompanied by real-world programming solutions. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to speed up your software development process using the right design patterns, and you’ll be comfortable working on scalable and maintainable projects of any size.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Introducing Design Patterns
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Section 2: Original Design Patterns
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Section 3: New Design Patterns

Soaring with the flyweight design pattern

The flyweight design patterns offer great efficiency and improved processing when dealing with a large number of similar objects. The pattern uses sharing of identical object components. Consider programming a video game that has thousands of tile objects that are used to build architectural structures. The tile objects will likely only have a color attribute. So repeating the Tiles tile = new Tiles("beige") line of code 1,000 times is not efficient, especially since all of the objects will contain the same attribute value. The flyweight design pattern addresses this issue by permitting the reference of numerous same-type objects that have the same state.

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