History
Patterns originated as an architectural concept by Christopher Alexander (1977/79). In 1987, Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham began experimenting with the idea of applying patterns to programming and presented their results at the OOPSLA conference that year. In the following years, Beck, Cunningham and others followed up on this work.
Design patterns gained popularity in computer science after the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software was published in 1994 by the so-called "Gang of Four" (Gamma et al.), which is frequently abbreviated as "GOF". That same year, the first Pattern Languages of Programming Conference was held and the following year, the Portland Pattern Repository was set up for documentation of design patterns. The scope of the term remains a matter of dispute. Notable books in the design pattern genre include:
- Gamma, Erich; Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (1995). Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-63361-2.
- Buschmann, Frank; Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert, Peter Sommerlad (1996). Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 1: A System of Patterns. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-95869-7.
- Schmidt, Douglas C.; Michael Stal, Hans Rohnert, Frank Buschmann (2000). Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 2: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-60695-2.
- Fowler, Martin (2002). Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-321-12742-6.
- Hohpe, Gregor; Bobby Woolf (2003). Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-321-20068-3.
- Freeman, Eric T; Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra (2004). Head First Design Patterns. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 0-596-00712-4.
Although design patterns have been applied practically for a long time, formalization of the concept of design patterns languished for several years.
In 2009 over 30 contributors collaborated with Thomas Erl on his book, SOA Design Patterns. The goal of this book was to establish a de facto catalog of design patterns for SOA and service-orientation. (Over 200+ IT professionals participated world-wide in reviewing Erl's book and patterns.) These patterns are also published and discussed on the community research site soapatterns.org
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