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Design Patterns (book review)

Detailed Book Review: Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable OO Software for Delphi & C++Builder books co-authored by Bob Swart Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides During the history of software engineering the notion that software should be built out of reuseable components is taking a progressive hold of the industry. The plain fact that the cost of re-inventing every bit of an application program is too high for most people or corporations to take makes the use of such concepts necessary. Can you perhaps remember the term 'software IC' that describes the concept of modularisation and reuseabilit? The metaphore here is that the pins are the interface, and what happens inside is totally invisible. However, the last couple of years another reuseability concept is coming to the foreground: design patterns. The meaning of this concept is that software engineers as a community should strive to identify and describe architectural solutions to specific problems in the form of a pattern. In fact, being a knowledge engineer myself engaged in implementing knowledge driven systems, I would dub this as 'knowledge management', and would like to say 'knowledge discovery' when speaking of the process of identifying patterns in applications reviewed to extract such patterns. One of the books that spurred interest in design patterns is the book I want to review here.

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