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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

Exploring the concept of modules with the module pattern

This pattern implements the concept of software modules defined by modular programming. The pattern is used in cases where the programming language does not have direct support for such a concept or the application requires it.

Motivation

This pattern can be implemented in several ways depending on the application requirements. The module pattern concentrates or encapsulates the composition of an application’s functionality into precisely identified modules. The Java platform has already implemented basic support for the module concept through the Jigsaw project, available since the release of JDK 9, but it is possible to try to create it programmatically in a similar way, although not entirely in isolation, as the source code can influence its modularization approach.

Finding it in the JDK

The best example that can be found in the JDK of the module pattern is the Java platform modules. This concept was discussed...