Pattern-oriented Software Architecture: On Patterns And Pattern Language, Volume 5

This volume in the POSA series explores the concepts underlying patterns. The goal is to bring together the POSA pattern theory in one volume allowing readers to deepen their understanding of what patterns are, what they are not, and how to use them successfully. This book serve as the reference manual for all POSA patterns, because it includes all POSA patterns in Patlet/Alexandrian form of two pages per pattern, woven together in a pattern language.

Table of contents :
Foreword by Richard P. Gabriel
Foreword by Wayne Cool
About the Authors
About this Book
Guide to the Reader
Beyond the Hype
Beginnings’
A Story of Success - with Some Exceptions
Pattern Definitions and their Interpretations
Toward a Deeper Understanding of Patterns

Part I: Inside Patterns
· A solution to a Problem and More
· A Million Different Implementations
· Notes on Pattern Form
Part II: Between Patterns
· Pattern Islands
· Pattern Complements
· Pattern Compounds
· Pattern Sequences
· Pattern Collections
Part III Into Pattern Languages
· Elements of Language
· A Network of Patterns and More
· A Billion Different Implementations
· Notes on Pattern Language Form
· On Patterns versus Pattern Languages
· From Patterns to People
· The Past, Presence, and Future of Patterns
· All Good Things
Afterword
Pattern Concept Summary
Referenced Patterns
References
Index of Patterns
Index of Names
Index

Market Description :
· Developers
· Programmers


About Author :
Frank Buschmann, Siemens AG, Germany
Kevlin Henney, Curbralan, Bristol, UK
Douglas C. Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA