Outline of Thinking in Patterns with Java

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Contents

Preface  8

Introduction  11

    The Y2K syndrome. 11

    Context and composition. 12

    A word about checked exceptions  13

The pattern concept 15

    What is a pattern?. 15

    Pattern taxonomy. 17

    Design principles. 18

    Classifying patterns. 19

    The development challenge. 21

    Unit testing. 21

        Location of test code. 22

Simplifying Idioms  22

    Messenger. 22

    Collecting Parameter. 24

Object quantity  25

    Singleton. 25

        Exercises. 27

    Object pool 27

        Exercises. 30

Object decoupling  30

    Proxy: fronting for another object 31

        The PoolManager using Proxy. 33

        Dynamic Proxies. 36

    State: changing object behavior  38

    Iterators: decoupling algorithms from containers  44

        Type-safe iterators. 45

    Exercises. 46

Factoring commonality  47

    Strategy: choosing the algorithm at run-time  48

    Policy: generalized strategy. 50

    Template method. 50

        Exercises. 52

Encapsulating creation  52

  Simple Factory method. 53

  Polymorphic factories. 55

  Abstract factories. 58

  Exercises. 61

Specialized creation  61

  Prototype. 61

  Builder. 62

  Exercises. 66

Too many  66

  Flyweight: too many objects. 66

  Decorator: too many classes. 69

    Basic decorator structure. 70

    A coffee example. 70

    Class for each combination. 70

    The decorator approach. 73

    Compromise. 78

    Other considerations. 82

    Exercises. 83

Connecting different types  84

  Adapter. 84

  Bridge. 87

  Exercises. 93

Flexible structure  93

  Composite. 93

System decoupling  95

  Observer. 95

    Observing flowers. 97

    A visual example of observers. 101

  Mediator. 103

  Exercises. 104

Reducing interface complexity  104

  Façade. 105

    Package as a variation of Façade  106

Algorithmic partitioning  106

  Command: choosing the operation at run-time  106

    Exercises. 109

  Chain of responsibility. 109

    Exercises. 112

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Externalizing object state  113

Memento. 113

Complex interactions  114

Multiple dispatching. 114

Visitor, a type of multiple dispatching  117

Exercises. 119

Multiple languages  120

Interpreter motivation. 121

Python overview.. 122

Built-in containers. 123

Functions. 124

Strings. 125

Classes. 127

Creating a language. 130

Controlling the interpreter. 134

Putting data in. 134

Getting data out. 140

Multiple interpreters. 143

Controlling Java from Jython  144

Inner Classes. 148

Using Java libraries. 148

Inheriting from Java library classes  150

Creating Java classes with Jython  151

Building the Java classes from the Python code  156

The Java-Python Extension (JPE)  157

Summary. 157

Exercises. 158

Complex system states  159

StateMachine. 159

Exercises. 169

Table-Driven State Machine. 169

The State class. 171

Conditions for transition. 172

Transition actions. 172

The table. 172

The basic machine. 173

Simple vending machine. 174

Testing the machine. 179

Tools. 180

Table-driven code: configuration flexibility  180

Table-driven code using anonymous inner classes  180

Exercises. 180

Pattern refactoring  181

Simulating the trash recycler. 182

Improving the design. 186

“Make more objects”. 186

A pattern for prototyping creation  189

Trash subclasses. 193

Parsing Trash from an external file  195

Recycling with prototyping. 198

Abstracting usage. 199

Multiple dispatching. 203

Implementing the double dispatch   204

The Visitor pattern. 211

A Reflective Decorator. 214

More coupling?. 219

RTTI considered harmful?. 220

Summary. 223

Exercises. 224

Projects  225

Rats & Mazes. 225

Other maze resources. 230

XML Decorator. 230

A: Tools  230

Ant extensions. 231

Array utilities. 232

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