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The document discusses design patterns that capture simple and elegant solutions to specific problems in object-oriented software design. These patterns have evolved over time through the experiences of developers struggling for greater reuse and flexibility. Understanding these patterns will change how readers think about object-oriented design and make their own designs more flexible, modular, reusable, and understandable.

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The document discusses design patterns that capture simple and elegant solutions to specific problems in object-oriented software design. These patterns have evolved over time through the experiences of developers struggling for greater reuse and flexibility. Understanding these patterns will change how readers think about object-oriented design and make their own designs more flexible, modular, reusable, and understandable.

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This book isn't an introduction to object-oriented technology or design.

Many books already do a good


job of that. This book assumes you are reasonably proficient in at least one object-oriented programming
language, and you should have some experience in object-oriented design as well. You definitely
shouldn't have to rush to the nearest dictionary the moment we mention "types" and "polymorphism,"
or "interface" as opposed to "implementation" inheritance. On the other hand, this isn't an advanced
technical treatise either. It's a book of design patterns that describes simple and elegant solutions to
specific problems in object-oriented software design. Design patterns capture solutions that have
developed and evolved over time. Hence they aren't the designs people tend to generate initially. They
reflect untold redesign and recoding as developers have struggled for greater reuse and flexibility in their
software. Design patterns capture these solutions in a succinct and easily applied form. The design
patterns require neither unusual language features nor amazing programming tricks with which to
astound your friends and managers. All can be implemented in standard object-oriented languages,
though they might take a little more work than ad hoc solutions. But the extra effort invariably pays
dividends in increased flexibility and reusability. Once you understand the design patterns and have had
an "Aha!" (and not just a "Huh?") experience with them, you won't ever think about object-oriented
design in the same way. You'll have insights that can make your own designs more flexible, modular,
reusable, and understandable—which is why you're interested in object-oriented technology in the first
place, right? A word of warning and encouragement: Don't worry if you don't understand this book
completely on the first reading. We didn't understand it all on the first writing! Remember that this isn't
a book to read once and put on a shelf. We hope you'll find yourself referring to it again and again for
design insights and for inspiration. This book has had a long gestation. It has seen four countries, three of
its authors' marriages, and the birth of two (unrelated) offspring. Many people have had a part in its
development. Special thanks are due Bruce Anderson, Kent Beck, and André Weinand for their
inspiration and advice. We also thank those who reviewed drafts of the manuscript: Roger Bielefeld,
Grady Booch, Tom Cargill, Marshall Cline, Ralph Hyre, Brian Kernighan, Thomas Laliberty, Mark Lorenz,
Arthur Riel, Doug Schmidt, Clovis Tondo, Steve Vinoski, and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock. We are also grateful to
the team at AddisonWesley for their help and patience: Kate Habib, Tiffany Moore, Lisa Raffaele,
Pradeepa Siva, and John Wait. Special thanks to Carl Kessler, Danny Sabbah, and Mark Wegman at IBM
Research for their unflagging support of this work. Last but certainly not least, we thank everyone on the
Internet and points beyond who commented on versions of the patterns, offered encouraging words,
and told us that what we were doing was worthwhile. These people include but are not limited to Jon
Avotins, Steve Berczuk, Julian Berdych, Matthias Bohlen, John Brant, Allan Clarke, Paul Chisholm, Jens
Coldewey, Dave Collins, Jim Coplien, Don Dwiggins, Gabriele Elia, Doug Felt, Brian Foote, Denis Fortin,
Ward Harold, Hermann Hueni, Nayeem Islam, Bikramjit Kalra, Paul Keefer, Thomas Kofler, Doug Lea, Dan
LaLiberte, James Long, Ann Louise Luu, Pundi Madhavan, Brian Marick, Robert Martin, Dave McComb,
Carl McConnell, Christine Mingins, Hanspeter Mössenböck, Eric Newton, Marianne Ozkan, Roxsan
Payette, Larry Podmolik, George Radin, Sita Ramakrishnan, Russ Ramirez, Alexander Ran, Dirk Riehle, Bry

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