Java Design Patterns To Go

Since 1994, the original Gang of Four Design Patterns book, “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software” has helped developers recognize common patterns in development. The book was originally written in C++, but there have been books that translate the original design patterns into their preferred language. One feature of “The Gang of Four Design Patterns” that has particularly stuck with me has been testability for the most part. With the exception of singleton, all patterns are unit-testable. Design Patterns are also our common developer language. When a developer says, “Let's use the Decorator Pattern,” we know what is meant.

What's new, though, is functional programming, so we will also discuss how these patterns change in our new modern functional programming world. For example, functional currying in place of the builder pattern, using an enum for a singleton, and reconstructing the state pattern using sealed interfaces. We will cover so much more, and I think you will be excited about this topic and putting it into practice on your codebase.

About Daniel Hinojosa

Daniel is a programmer, consultant, instructor, speaker, and recent author. With over 20 years of experience, he does work for private, educational, and government institutions. He is also currently a speaker for No Fluff Just Stuff tour. Daniel loves JVM languages like Java, Groovy, and Scala; but also dabbles with non JVM languages like Haskell, Ruby, Python, LISP, C, C++. He is an avid Pomodoro Technique Practitioner and makes every attempt to learn a new programming language every year. For downtime, he enjoys reading, swimming, Legos, football, and barbecuing.

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