Dave's Pattern Resources
Last update: 199808.23

Important Note

The purpose of this page is to share with you Pattern related resources for which I can personally vouch. I am certain that there are many fine works that do not appear on this list. Direct comments to me, Dave Small, at dts@cise.ufl.edu.

Books

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

• Author: Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissises
• Pages: 395
• Published: 1995 by Addison-Wesley
• Cover price: $49.95
• ISBN: 0-201-63361-2
• Comments: the book on design patterns. An excellent work. It one of those rare books which is a successful hybrid of reference and tutorial material. Well written and beautifully organized. The index, navigation maps, and cross-referencing system make it easy to find exactly what you are looking for. Excellent layout. Often refered to as the GoF (Gang of Four) book, because its four authors spearheaded the design pattern revolution.

Design Patterns for Object-Oriented Software Development

• Author: Wolfgang Pree
• Pages: 268
• Published: 1995 by Addison-Wesley
• Cover price: $39.95
• ISBN: 0-201-42294-8
• Comments: a work best suited for those interested in implementing designs in C++ (it has a lot of good C++ specific material). The overview of object-oriented principles is good. But, I found that its cataloging of meta-patterns is interesting in an abstract, mathematical sense -- but less useful than the approach taken by the GoF.

Adaptive Object-Oriented Software: The Demeter Method with Propagation Patterns

• Author: Karl J. Lieberherr
• Pages: 616
• Published: 1995 by PWS Publishing
• Cover price: $69.95
• ISBN: 0-534-94602-X
• Comments:

Object Models : Strategies, Patterns and Applications, 2nd edition

• Author: Peter Coad, Mark Mayfield, and David North
• Pages: 515
• Cover price: $52
• Published: 1997 by Prentice Hall
• Cover price: $69.95
• ISBN: 0-13-840117-9
• Comments:

Applying Uml and Patterns : An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

• Author: Craig Larman
• Pages: 507
• Published: 1998 by Prentice Hall
• Cover price: $45
• ISBN: 0-13-748880-7
• Comments:

Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models

• Author: Martin Fowler
• Pages: 357
• Published: 1997 by Addison-Wesley
• Cover price: $42.95
• ISBN: 0-201-89542-0
• Comments: an examination of how patterns can be applied to the analysis phase. Has specific examples relating to various business domains (accounting, trading, etc.).

Web Sites

These are the pattern related web sites that I visit most frequently. There are many, many more in my bookmark file, which at some future time, I may organize.

Major Sites

  Patterns Homepage

• Maintainer: Aamod Sane
• URL: http://hillside.net/patterns/patterns.html
• Comments: A rather spartan site with lots of links, references, and some content.

The PortlandPatternRepository (a.k.a., the WikiWikiWeb)

• Corporate Sponsor: Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc.
• URL: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors
• Comments: This is peculiar place -- and truth be told, I'm not sure what to make of it. It's a user extensible site with a very loose organization; most of the time I find myself going around in circles, butocassionally bumping into something interesting.

Introductory & Overview

Patterns and Software: Essential Concepts and Terminology

• Author: Brad Appleton
• URL: http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/docs/patterns-intro.html
• Comments: An excellent discussion of patterns and related issues.

Patterns-Discussion FAQ

• Maintainer: Doug Lea
• URL: http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/pd-FAQ/pd-FAQ.html
• Comments: Read this to get a feel for what patterns are; the irreverent tone reinforces an important message that patterns: while extremely useful, aren't a magic cure-all.

Programming Patterns Overview

• Author: Rob Kremer, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Calgary
• URL: http://sern.ucalgary.ca/courses/SENG/609.04/W98/
• Comments: This site has a short synopsis of the patterns cataloged by the GoF, Pree, and Buschmann et al. The site uses frames -- click on a pattern name in the navigation pane to loads a short synopsis of that pattern in the main pane.

Link collections

Cetus pages on Architecture and Design: Patterns

• Maintainer: Georg Odenthal
• URL: http://www.sente.ch/cetus/oo_patterns.html
• Comments: An excellent, frequently updated, and well organized collection of links. Cetus is a wonderful resource if you're looking for information about all things Object-Oriented.

Software (design) patterns resources

• Maintainer: Gert Florijn, Utrecht University
• URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~florijn/research/patts.html
• Comments: A site with lots of links. Doesn't appear to have been updated for more than a year.

The Design Patterns Study Group of New York City

• Corporate Sponsor: Industrial Logic
• URL: http://www.industriallogic.com/patterns/ili_nyc_destinations.html
• Comments: A small, but solid link collection.