Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: On Patterns and Pattern Languages (Hardcover)

Foreword by Richard P. Gabriel xiii Foreword by Wayne Cool xxiii About the Authors xxix About this Book xxxi Guide to the Reader xxxvii 0 Beyond the Hype1 0.1 Beginnings 2 0.2 A Story of Success... with Some Exceptions 3 0.3 Pattern Definitions and their Interpretations 8 0.4 Toward a Deeper Understanding of Patterns 19 Part I Inside Patterns 25 1 A Solution to a Problem and More 29 1.1 A Solution to a Problem 30 1.2 A Process and a Thing 32 1.3 Best of Breed 34 . . . . 1.4 Forces: the Heart of Every Pattern 36 1.5 The Context: Part of a Pattern or Not? 42 1.6 Genericity 47 1.7 A Diagram Says More than a Thousand Words...or Less 50 1.8 Evocative Names Help Pattern Recollection 54 1.9 Patterns are Works in Progress 57 1.10 A Pattern Tells a Story and Initiates a Dialog 61 1.11 A Pattern Celebrates Human Intelligence 62 1.12 From a Problem–Solution Statement to a Pattern 63 2 A Million Different Implementations 65 2.1 Does One Size Fit All? 66 2.2 Patterns and Frameworks 77 2.3 Patterns and Formalisms 84 2.4 A Million and One... and then Some 87 3 Notes on Pattern Form 91 3.1 Style and Substance 92 3.2 The Function of Form 96 3.3 Elements of Form 97 3.4 Details, Details 102 3.5 Aerial View 106 3.6 Different Pattern Forms 110 3.7 Style and Substance (Redux) 116 Part II Between Patterns 117 4 Pattern Islands? 121 4.1 Patterns Connect 122 4.2 A Design Experiment: Patterns as Islands 123 4.3 A Second Design Experiment: Interwoven Patterns 129 4.4 Pattern Density 131 5 Pattern Complements 135 5.1 More than One Solution to a Problem 136 5.2 Patterns in Competition 138 5.3 Patterns in Cooperation 155 5.4 Patterns in Combination 159 5.5 Complementary: Competing, Completing, Combining 163 6 Pattern Compounds 165 6.1 Recurring Pattern Arrangements 166 6.2 From Elements to Compounds 166 6.3 From Complements to Compounds 173 6.4 Element or Compound? 176 6.5 Compound Analysis and Synthesis 180 7 Pattern Sequences 183 7.1 Patterns Tell Software Engineering Success Stories 184 7.2 Pattern Stories 185 7.3 From Stories to Sequences 191 7.4 Sequences of Patterns 192 7.5 Pattern Compounds and Complements Revisited 197 7.6 Returning to the Question of Context 203 7.7 Pattern Connections 207 8 Pattern Collections 209 8.1 Toward a Handbook 210 8.2 Organizing Pattern Collections 211 8.3 Ad Hoc Organization 212 8.4 Organization by Level 213 8.5 Organization by Domain 218 8.6 Organization by Partition 219 8.7 Organization by Intent 221 8.8 Organizing Pattern Collections (Reprise) 225 8.9 Problem Frames 226 8.10 Pattern Semiotics 231 8.11 Pattern Collections and Style 235 8.12 Toward Pattern Languages 241 Part III Into Pattern Languages 243 9 Elements of Language 247 9.1 Designing with Patterns 248 9.2 From Pattern Stories and Sequences to Pattern Languages 250 10 A Network of Patterns and More 259 10.1 A Network of Patterns 260 10.2 A Process and a Thing 260 10.3 Best of Breed 269 10.4 Forces: the Heart of Every Pattern Language 273 10.5 Pattern Contexts Define Topology and Architectural Style 277 10.6 Patterns Form Vocabulary, Sequences Illustrate Grammar 280 10.7 Genericity 285 10.8 A Whole Language Says More than a Thousand Diagrams 287 10.9 Domain-Oriented Names Help to Recall Pattern Languages 288 10.10 A Pattern Language Initiates Dialog and Tells Many Stories 290 10.11 Work in Progress 291 10.12 Pattern Languages Reward Creative Human Intelligence 293 10.13 From a Pattern Network to a Pattern Language 295 11 A Billion Different Implementations 297 11.1 One Size Does Not Fit All 298 11.2 Piecemeal Growth 298 11.3 Refactoring Not Excluded 303 11.4 One Pattern at a Time 306 11.5 Role-Based Pattern Integration 309 11.6 Pattern Languages and Reference Architectures 315 11.7 Pattern Languages and Product-Line Architectures 317 11.8 A Billion and One... and then Some 322 12 Notes on Pattern Language Form 325 12.1 Style and Substance 326 12.2 The Function of Form 326 12.3 The Elements of Form 328 12.4 Details, Details, Details 334 12.5 Style and S