Design Pattern Tutorials

• Patterns, Frameworks and Middleware: Their Synergestic Relationships

  This tutorial is based on a presentation I gave at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, Portland, Oregon, May 3--10, 2003. It presents an overview of patterns, frameworks, and middleware, describes how these technologies complement each other to enhance reuse and productivity, and then illustrates how they have been applied successfully in practice to improve the reusability and quality of complex software systems.

• Pattern-Oriented Distributed Software Architectures

  This tutorial is based on material in the two volumes of the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, which have published by Wiley and Sons in 1996 and 2000. Many patterns from POSA1 and all of the patterns/idioms in POSA2 are presented in this tutorial.

• Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects

  This tutorial is based on material in our book Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects, which was published by Wiley and Sons in 2000. Most of the patterns/idioms in POSA2 are presented here.

• Michael Stal's PowerPoint presentations on patterns and distributed object computing middleware, which describe some of the POSA1 and POSA2 patterns.

• Powerpoint tutorial based on the C++ Network Programming: Mastering Complexity with ACE and Patterns. This tutorial describes the C++ wrapper facades in ACE.

• Powerpoint tutorial based on the C++ Network Programming: Systematic Reuse with ACE and Frameworks book. This tutorial describes the C++ frameworks in ACE.

• An Introduction to the Gang of Four Design Patterns. This tutorial presents ~10 of the Gang of Four design patterns.

• Introduction to Design Patterns

  This tutorial explains what design patterns are and why they are useful, outlines the patterns from the ``Gang of Four'' Design Patterns Catalog, and presents a short case study of how they've been used in practice to simplify porting communication software from UNIX to Windows NT.

• Advanced C++ Features, Design Patterns, and Frameworks

  This tutorial presents three complete case studies that illustrate how patterns from the ``Gang of Four'' Design Patterns Catalog can be combined with advanced C++ features to build flexible, reusable, and efficient frameworks and components. The case studies include building a system sort framework, a sort verification framework, and a class library for expression trees.

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