General Information on Patterns

• Learn more about what design patterns are and who is involved with them.

• The Patterns FAQ.

• Everything you always wanted to know about patterns by didn't know where to ask.

• Call for papers for various pattern conferences.

• Online pattern descriptions from the books Pattern Languages of Program Design (Addison-Wesley, 1995), co-edited by James O. Coplien and Douglas C. Schmidt, ISBN 0-201-60734-4, Pattern Languages of Program Design 2 edited by John Vlissides, James O. Coplien, and Norm Kerth, Pattern Languages of Program Design 3 edited by Robert C. Martin, Dirk Riehle, and Frank Buschmann, and Pattern Languages of Program Design 4 edited by Neil Harrison, Brian Foote, and Hans Rohnert. These books are the culmination of an intensive effort to capture and refine a broad range of software development expertise in a systematic and highly accessible manner. The chapters in these books are based on papers presented at the Annual Conference of Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP) held near Monticello, Illinois, in 1994, 1995, and 1996.

• Course material from an undergrad class I taught using design patterns at the Washington University Department of Computer Science. Other material from courses I've taught is also available online.

• Michael Stal's PowerPoint presentations on patterns and distributed object computing middleware, which describe some of the POSA2 patterns.

• Vince Huston has extensive coverage of patterns online.

• Experience applying patterns to software projects by Frank Buschmann.

• Addison Wesley's Pattern Depot, which makes it possible to locate online pattern descriptions.

• Data mining software library reuse patterns in user-selected applications, such as KDE.

• Formal and Precise Software Patterns Representation Languages

• The CVSSearch is a new kind of search engine for code that also incorporates some ideas from CodeWeb. A KDE demo with over 200 apps is available online.

Online Patterns from PLoP Conferences

• PLoPD 96
• PLoPD 97
• EuroPLoP 97
• PLoPD 98
• PLoPD 99
• PLoPD 2k

Information on Concurrent, Parallel, and Distributed Patterns

• Doug Lea's Design patterns for concurrent Java.

• Doug Schmidt and his colleagues have written design patterns for building distributed, concurrent, and parallel software architectures

• The OOPSLA '95 Workshop on design patterns for concurrent, parallel, and distributed object-oriented systems.

• Chapter 2 of the book Pattern Languages of Program Design (Addison-Wesley, 1995), volume 1.

• Chapter 7 of the book Pattern Languages of Program Design (Addison-Wesley, 1995), volume 2.

• Several chapters (e.g., Broker) in the book Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture - A System of Patterns.

• The October '96 issue of the CACM, which has papers by Nayeem Islam, Murthy Devarakonda, and Paul McKenney on distributed and parallel patterns.

• The PLoP '96 WWW page, which contains papers on concurrency and distribution.

• Antonia Silva and his colleagues are working on a method and pattern language for the development of distributed applications.

• Thomas Mowbray and Raphael Malveau have written a book on CORBA Design Patterns.

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