Take advantage of the proxy design pattern to provide a convenient placeholder for accessing a remote, complex, or protected object Design patterns are used to solve the recurring problems and ...

How can one class communicate with each another, yet know nothing about that other class? That's where the mediator pattern comes in, and Eric shows how to employ it in a .NET chat application. The ...

The job of the EJB developer is constantly challenging, making the task of designing maintainable and scalable systems difficult without a clear set of best practices to follow. It is with this and ...

The prototype design pattern enables you to create new instances by copying existing instances to avoid the overhead involved in creating objects that can consume more resources Design patterns are ...