Publisher's Synopsis
The first conference on Pattern Languages of Program Design (PLoP) was a watershed event that gave a public voice to the software design pattern movement. Seventy software professionals from around the world worked together to capture and refine software experience that exemplifies the elusive quality called "good design." This volume is the result of that work - a broad compendium of this new genre of software literature. Patterns are a literary form that take inspiration from literate programming, from a design movement of the same name in contemporary architecture, and from the practices common to the ageless literature of any culture. The goal of pattern literature is to help programmers resolve the common difficult problems encountered in design and programming. Spanning disciplines as broad as client/server programming, distributed processing, organizational design, software reuse, and human interface design, this volume encodes design expertise that too often remains locked in the minds of expert architects.;By capturing these expert practices as problem-solution pairs supported with a discussion of the forces that shape alternative solution choices, and rationales that clarify the architects' intents, these patterns convey the essence of great software designs.
