Structural Patterns: These design patterns concern class and object composition. The concept of inheritance is used to build interfaces and define ways to compose objects to obtain new ...

Stability patterns applied Stability patterns are used to promote resiliency in distributed systems, using what we know about the hot-spots of network behavior to protect our systems against failure.

EJB Design Patterns goes beyond high-level design pattern descriptions into critical EJB-specific implementation issues, illustrated with source code implementations. The book contains a catalog of ...

Although the Singleton design pattern—as evidenced below by the figure below—is one of the simplest design patterns, it presents a number of pitfalls for the unwary Java developer.