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Architectural Patterns
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Architectural Patterns

by Anupama Murali, Pethuru Raj, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj Chelliah
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
13h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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Object-Oriented Software Engineering Patterns

Object-oriented (OO) concepts in software engineering are not new, and let's start this chapter with a brief introduction before we dive into OO design patterns. While you are reading this chapter, look around you; whatever you see is an object: the book, bookshelves, reading lamp, table, chair, and so on. Everything around you can be imagined as an object, and all of them share two primary characteristics, as follows:

  • State
  • Behavior

A reading lamp has off and on as states, and turn on and turn off as behaviors. Objects may also have many states and many behaviors, sometimes even other objects as well.

Object-oriented design (OOD) intends to provide modularity, abstraction (information hiding), ...

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