Design Patterns

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Behavioral – Chain of Responsibility

Chain of responsibility pattern is one of behavioral pattern that used to achieve loose coupling in software design where a request from client is passed to a chain of objects to process them. Then the object in the chain will decide themselves who will be processing the request and whether the request is required to […]

August 24, 2020

Design Patterns

Behavioral – Template Design Pattern

Template pattern is a behavioral design pattern that defines the skeleton of an algorithm in an operation, deferring some steps to client subclasses. The overall structure and sequence of the algorithm is preserved by the parent class. In the template method pattern, we have a preset structure method called template method which consists of steps. […]

August 22, 2020

Design Patterns

Behavioral – Strategy Design Pattern

Strategy pattern is also known as Policy Pattern. We define multiple algorithms and let client application pass the algorithm to be used as a parameter. Strategy pattern is a Behavioral design pattern that defines a family of algorithms, encapsulates each algorithm, and makes the algorithms interchangeable within that family. Let’s see how to implement the […]

August 18, 2020

Design Patterns

Behavioral – State Design Pattern

State pattern is one of the behavioral design patterns that used when an object changes its behavior based on its internal state. Suppose you want to change behavior of an object based on its state. For that we can have a state variable in the object and use if-else condition block to perform different actions […]

August 16, 2020

Design Patterns

Behavioral – Memento Design Pattern

Memento pattern is a behavioral design pattern that used to restore state of an object to a previous state. When an application is progressing, you may want to save checkpoints in your application and restore back to those checkpoints later. For that we use memento pattern. There are 3 design components called Originator, Caretaker and […]

August 14, 2020

Design Patterns

Behavioral – Mediator Design Pattern

Mediator pattern is one of the important behavioral design pattern. According to GoF, mediator pattern allows loose coupling by encapsulating the way disparate sets of objects interact and communicate with each other. Allows for the actions of each object set to vary independently of one another. Sport car race controller is a example of mediator […]

August 10, 2020

Design Patterns

Behavioral – Iterator Design Pattern

Iterator pattern is a behavioral pattern that used to provide a standard way to go across a group of objects. This is relatively simple and frequently used design pattern. According to GoF, Iterator pattern provides a way to access the elements of an aggregate object without exposing its underlying representation. Let’s understand iterator pattern with […]

August 10, 2020

Design Patterns

Behavioral – Interpreter Design Pattern

Interpreter pattern is a behavioral design pattern that used to define a grammatical representation for a language and provides an interpreter to deal with the grammar. This is used in SQL passing, symbol processing engine etc. Let’s see an example of interpreter design pattern. “Expression” is the interface to check the interpreter. For that there […]

August 8, 2020

Design Patterns

Behavioral – Command Design Pattern

There are 10 behavioral design patterns and command pattern is one of them. This is used to implement loose coupling in a request-response model. Given below is the process of command pattern. —-request—-> Invoker —-request—> Command object —-request—>Receiver The command object is encapsulated. The client program creates the receiver object after passing the request to […]

August 7, 2020

Design Patterns

Behavioral – Observer Design Pattern

Observer pattern is classified among Behavioral patterns. This pattern is using if there is a many-to-many relationship between the objects inside a program. That means when a behavior of one object is affecting to many other objects inside the program. Let’s check it out from an example in java. This is on a salary […]

August 6, 2020

Design Patterns

Structural – Flyweight Design Pattern

Flyweight Pattern is a Structural Design Pattern that used when we need to create a large number of similar objects. That means this pattern provides ways to decrease object count thus improving application required object structure. Once flyweight objects have been constructed, they cannot be modified. Let’s see a java program to demonstrate working of […]

August 5, 2020

Design Patterns

Structural – Proxy Design Pattern

Proxy design pattern is a Structural design pattern that provides a class which will limit the access to another class. This is something that authorized to handle the requests on behalf of the original object. Proxy pattern is applicable in four common situations. Virtual proxy – The real object is only created when a client […]

August 4, 2020

Design Patterns

Structural – Composite Design Pattern

Composite is a Structural Design Pattern that is used when two child classes have a common parent class and one of those 2 classes can contain the other class and itself inside the class. For example, let’s take “a file” and “a folder”. Both are data. Therefore “Data” is the parent class. But “a folder” […]

August 3, 2020

Design Patterns

Structural – Bridge Design Pattern

Bridge Pattern is a Structural Design Pattern that lets you to separate one large class into two separate hierarchies Abstraction and Implementation that can be developed independently. It increases the loose coupling between class abstraction and its implementation. Let’s see an example on bridge pattern in java. Observe the bridge between “Shape” and “Colour” […]

August 2, 2020

Design Patterns

Structural – Adapter Design Pattern

Adapter pattern is a Structural Design Pattern that allows 2 incompatible interfaces to work together according to the client’s requirement without changing the existing code. Adapter Design Pattern is also known as Wrapper. Below given is an example in java to understand about adapter pattern. Let’s assume that you are short on toycat object and […]

August 1, 2020

Design Patterns

Structural – Decorator Design Pattern

Decorator Pattern is a structural design pattern. If we want to add behaviors during the runtime for an object, we can use decorator pattern. In other words, we can extend the functionalities of the structure of program without changing the structure. Let’s discuss about the decorator design pattern using an example in java. Here I […]

July 31, 2020

Design Patterns

Structural – Facade Design Pattern

Facade Design Pattern is categorized under Structural Design Patterns. A facade is an object that provides a simplified interface to a larger body of code. We can use facade design pattern to make a software library easier to use, understand and test. Also make the library more readable. Let’s start to discuss about the facade […]

July 30, 2020

Design Patterns

Creational – Builder Design Pattern

Builder Pattern is a creational design Pattern that used to create objects made from bunch of other objects. The advantages of builder pattern are, You can see clear separation between construction and representation of an object. Provides better control over construction process. Supports to change the internal representation of objects. To create a program of […]

July 29, 2020

Design Patterns

Creational – Prototype Design Pattern

Prototype design pattern is also belonging to the Creational Design Patterns. This is using when you want to avoid multiple object creation of same instance: instead you copy the object to new object & then we can modify as per our need. Let’s check that using an example. Here First I created an interface called […]

July 28, 2020

Design Patterns

Creational – Abstract Factory Design Pattern

Abstract Factory Pattern means defining an interface or abstract class for creating families of related objects but without specifying there concrete sub classes. That means a class returns a factory of classes. Abstract Factory pattern is also known as Kit. Let’s go with a real world example. First I created an interface called “Shape”. There […]

July 27, 2020

Design Patterns

Creational – Factory Method

Factory design pattern is one of the creational design patterns. It defined of an interface or abstract class to create an object and subclasses are responsible to create the instance of the class. Simply it means, creation of a factory to make objects from the classes. Normally we use constructor to create an object. But […]

July 25, 2020

Design Patterns

Creational – Singleton Design Pattern

Design pattern is a solution that provides for a common software problem. Those are very popular among software developers. There are 23 design patterns that can be classified in to 3 parts. Creational Patterns Structural Patterns Behavioral Patterns Let’s learn about the Creational Design Patterns first. For that I am going to take the Singleton […]

July 25, 2020