Description
Book SynopsisImplement programming best practices from the ground up Imagine how much easier it would be to solve a programming problem, if you had access to the best practices from all the top experts in the field, and you could follow the best design patterns that have evolved through the years. Well, now you can.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1
Part I: Introducing Software Architecture and Patterns 7
Chapter 1: Software Architecture Basics 9
Chapter 2: Where Do Architectures Come From? 25
Chapter 3: What Do Software Architectures Look Like? 37
Chapter 4: Software Pattern Basics 55
Chapter 5: Seeing How Patterns Are Made and Used 73
Part II: Putting Patterns to Work 83
Chapter 6: Making Sense of Patterns 85
Chapter 7: Building Your Own Pattern Catalog 95
Chapter 8: Choosing a Pattern 103
Part III: Creating Your Application Architecture 115
Chapter 9: Building Functionality in Layers 117
Chapter 10: Piping Your Data through Filters 137
Chapter 11: Sharing Knowledge and Results on a Blackboard 151
Chapter 12: Coordinating Communication through a Broker 171
Chapter 13: Structuring Your Interactive Application with Model-View-Controller 189
Chapter 14: Layering Interactive Agents with Presentation-Abstraction-Control 209
Chapter 15: Putting Key Functions in a Microkernel 229
Chapter 16: Refl ecting and Adapting 245
Part IV: Designing with Other POSA Patterns 263
Chapter 17: Decomposing the System’s Structure 265
Chapter 18: Making a Component the Master 271
Chapter 19: Controlling Access 277
Chapter 20: Managing the System 285
Chapter 21: Enhancing Interprocess Communication 295
Chapter 22: Counting the Number of References 309
Part V: The Part of Tens 319
Chapter 23: Ten Patterns You Should Know 321
Chapter 24 Ten Places to Look for Patterns 327
Chapter 25: Ten Ways to Get Involved with the Pattern Community 333
Index 339
