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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

A quick review of Java features from 11 to 17+

This version update presents performance and optimization improvements. In this section, we will examine those that are very useful for the specific use of a design pattern and its structure. This equates to platform enhancements that improve code readability, platform usage, or syntax enhancements.

The local variable syntax for lambda parameters (Java SE 11, JEP-323)

Java has often been criticized for the amount of standard code in the use of a variable; Java SE 10 introduced a new keyword, var. The derivation of a local type variable lies behind this keyword. It essentially requires that the value type is taken from the newly created reference instance (Example 2.20). Using the stream boxed function shows a decorator pattern that wraps the stream value with the desired type:

Consumer<Integer> consumer = (var number) -> {
    var result = number + 1;
    System.out.println(&quot...