Part IV. Behavioral Design Patterns
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
Behavioral design patterns make up the plurality of design patterns offered by the Gang of Four. This section covers one class example (Template Method) and one object example (State), but Part V shows more behavioral patterns used with PHP/MySQL examples. All in all, Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides provide eleven behavioral patterns:
Chain of Responsibility
Command
Interpreter (class type)
Iterator
Mediator
Memento
Observer
State
Strategy
Template Method (class type)
Visitor
The key to understanding behavioral design patterns is communication. The focus shifts from the objects and classes that make up a design pattern to the communication between objects and classes. In the truest form of composition, behavioral patterns are best understood in terms of how objects work together to perform tasks.
Figure 50. Behavioral patterns ...
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