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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

Simplifying communication with the facade pattern

The facade pattern provides a unified interface to a set of underlying subsystems. In other words, a facade defines a higher-level interface that facilitates use. The facade pattern was described by the GoF.

Motivation

As subsystems evolve, they often become more complex. Most patterns, when used, result in smaller classes, thus making the subsystem more reusable and easier to customize, but also making it more difficult for all clients to work with. The facade pattern provides a simple default view of the subsystem that is good enough for most clients. Only clients who need more customizations will need to look beyond the façade pattern.

Finding it in the JDK

The Java collections framework resides in the java.base module and java.util has already been mentioned several times. It is a widely used part of the JDK, especially for internal logic implementation. Interfaces such as List, Set, Queue, Map, and Enumeration...