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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

Discovering the Java Platform for Design Patterns

Many years ago, motivated by the lack of a suitable Application Programming Interface (API) design, something extraordinary began to happen. In the early days of using the World Wide Web (WWW), the direction of application development was a bit shrouded in fog. In one direction, there was a strong need in the industry to process a large number of database transactions or develop specific proprietary hardware and software. On the other hand, it was not clear what kind of applications might be needed to move the demand forward and how such an application should be maintained.

In this chapter, we will prepare the ground for understanding the value of design patterns from a memory utilization perspective. We will do so by covering the following topics:

  • The rise of Java and brief historical facts
  • How the Java platform works under the hood
  • Exploring Java memory area allocation and management
  • How allocated heap is maintained...