October 2004
Beginner
480 pages
8h 43m
English
book
Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Second Edition
by Alan Shalloway, James R. Trott
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Chapter 22. The Object Pool Pattern
Overview
This chapter discusses the Object Pool pattern. Rather than using the international e-commerce case study, I illustrate this pattern with an actual project I worked on several years ago. This project gives evidence of the proposal I made in Chapter 10, “The Bridge Pattern.” That was that if you understand the principles of patterns and work on a project where a pattern that is unknown to you applies, you are likely to derive it yourself. In particular, on this project, I ended up deriving the Object Pool pattern from the basic principles of design patterns. Later I discovered that what I had written had been written by others as well, and named the Object Pool pattern. The ...