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Practical Design Patterns for Java Developers

By : Miroslav Wengner
Book Image

Practical Design Patterns for Java Developers

By: Miroslav Wengner

Overview of this book

Design patterns are proven solutions to standard problems in software design and development, allowing you to create reusable, flexible, and maintainable code. This book enables you to upskill by understanding popular patterns to evolve into a proficient software developer. You’ll start by exploring the Java platform to understand and implement design patterns. Then, using various examples, you’ll create different types of vehicles or their parts to enable clarity in design pattern thinking, along with developing new vehicle instances using dedicated design patterns to make the process consistent. As you progress, you’ll find out how to extend vehicle functionalities and keep the code base structure and behavior clean and shiny. Concurrency plays an important role in application design, and you'll learn how to employ a such design patterns with the visualization of thread interaction. The concluding chapters will help you identify and understand anti-pattern utilization in the early stages of development to address refactoring smoothly. The book covers the use of Java 17+ features such as pattern matching, switch cases, and instances of enhancements to enable productivity. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained practical knowledge of design patterns in Java and be able to apply them to address common design problems.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Part 1: Design Patterns and Java Platform Functionalities
4
Part 2: Implementing Standard Design Patterns Using Java Programming
8
Part 3: Other Essential Patterns and Anti-Patterns

Understanding software architecture anti-patterns

A clear understanding of classes, packages, and module composition can be seen as essential not only to the application itself, but, as we learned in Chapter 2, Discovering the Java Platform for Design Patterns, to the platform as well. Thanks to the dynamic translation of the bytecode that the JIT compiler processes, the Java platform collects essential information about its optimization. Poor code quality and software architecture can cause latency, improper memory usage, or crashes. Let’s understand the possible obstacles.

Golden hammer

One proven approach applied over a period of time without exploration of alternatives can easily turn into legacy code. The fact that it is difficult to accept other proposals or migration may be due to a particular set of approaches, otherwise known as the golden hammer anti-pattern, where developers believe that there is no need to investigate whether changes to something would be beneficial...