Design Patterns Categories

Thursday, July 30, 2009

About Design Patterns
Design patterns are used for day to day problems we encounter during the development of the application.
There are mainly three categories of design patterns.
• Creational Patterns
- Abstract factory (Frequently used)
- Builder
- Factory method
- Prototype-
Singleton (Frequently used)
•Structural Patterns
- Adapter
- Bridge
- Composite
- Decorator-
Façade (Frequently used)
- Flyweight
- Proxy
• Behavioral Patterns
- Chain of responsibility
- Command-
Interpreter
- Iterator
- Mediator
- Memento
- Observer
- State
- Strategy
- Template method
- Visitor