Relationship to Known Patterns

There is a wealth of software pattern documentation available today. The patterns in these different books are at various levels of abstraction. There are architecture patterns, design patterns, analysis patterns, and programming patterns. The most popular and influential of these books is Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, [GoF] better known as the Gang of Four, or GoF book. The patterns in the GoF book describe expert solutions for object design.

Our pattern catalog includes patterns that describe the structure of an application and others that describe design elements.

The unifying theme of the pattern catalog is its support of the J2EE platform. In some cases, the patterns in the ...

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