Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: On Patterns and Pattern Languages

Published by Wiley & Sons in 2007, ISBN 0471486485, order from amazon.com (US), amazon.co.uk (UK), amazon.de (Germany), German translation, amazon.co.jp (Japan), www.amazon.fr (France), Chinese translation, or Fatbrain.

This book is the fifth volume in the highly acclaimed Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture (POSA) series, POSA1 as published in 1996 and hence this book is referred to as POSA5.

POSA5 is written by
Frank Buschmann
Kevlin Henney
Douglas C. Schmidt

Software patterns have revolutionized the way developers think about how software is designed, built, and documented, and this unique book offers an in-depth look of what patterns are, what they are not, and how to use them successfully. This book addresses the question of what a pattern language is and compares various pattern paradigms, including pattern compounds, pattern complements, pattern collections, pattern stories, and pattern sequences.

The table of contents for POSA5 is available here.

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