Design Patterns

Introduction

Design patterns have been around for quite a few years. They were originally created by the Gang of Four (Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides), which is responsible for formalizing the accepted design patterns we use today. Their use, while questioned and argued over by different programming schools of thought, has generally been accepted as “best practices” within the development community. The original takeoff of design patterns was brought about in the Java and C++ world.

Other languages like .NET (dot NET) have sprung up in recent years to fill certain marketing and technology voids left open by these languages, and have adopted design patterns in one way or another to mimic what was learned by programmers ...