Practical Design Patterns for Java Developers: Hone your software design skills by implementing popular design patterns in Java

by Miroslav Wengner, Bruno Souza (Foreword)

Unravel the power of Java design patterns by learning where to apply them effectively to solve specific software design and development problems Design patterns are proven solutions to standard problems in software design and development, allowing you to create reusable, flexible, and maintainable code. This book enables you to upskill by understanding popular patterns to evolve into a proficient software developer. You'll start by exploring the Java platform to understand and implement design patterns. Then, using various examples, you'll create different types of vehicles or their parts to enable clarity in design pattern thinking, along with developing new vehicle instances using dedicated design patterns to make the process consistent. As you progress, you'll find out how to extend vehicle functionalities and keep the code base structure and behavior clean and shiny. Concurrency plays an important role in application design, and you'll learn how to employ a such design patterns with the visualization of thread interaction. The concluding chapters will help you identify and understand anti-pattern utilization in the early stages of development to address refactoring smoothly. The book covers the use of Java 17+ features such as pattern matching, switch cases, and instances of enhancements to enable productivity. By the end of this book, you'll have gained practical knowledge of design patterns in Java and be able to apply them to address common design problems. If you are an intermediate-level Java developer or software architect looking to learn the practical implementation of software design patterns in Java, then this book is for you. No prior knowledge of design patterns is required, but an understanding of Java programming is necessary.

266 pages, Paperback

Published February 3, 2023

Reviews

[Iurii Mednikov · Rating 4 out of 5]

The title may be misleading if you would like to get an introductory reading in design patterns. It covers how common design patterns are implemented in JDK and this makes the book to stand out from the crowd. Knowledge of design patterns is must, however it is also crucial to understand how they are implemented in practice in Java itself. However, besides this ambitious goal, the book has a little to offer. The author had a plan to cover many topics, and this could be spotted. However, I found the chapter 2 and the chapter 6 to be out of context. It is hard to understand the audience of this chapters: these topics (GC, concurrency, functional programming) require separate books and are covered incredibly briefly here. If the book scope would be limited to GoF implementations in JDK it would be much better, otherwise many important things were announced but were not covered in a good way.