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The evictor pattern describes a generic procedure by which services can be deactivated, when they are no longer needed. It is described in Advanced CORBA Programming with C++. Sorry, can't help yo...more

Factory classes provide an interface for creating families of related objects. Factory classes are useful when the decision of which class to use must be done at run time and cannot be hard coded ...more

See the list of tools at http://hillside.net/patterns/tools/. Per Lundholm recommends, “Together/J has support for Design Patterns and ships with GOF set. See http://www.togethe...more

There are a number of different ways whereby you can perform OO analysis and design. Outlined here are some steps (process) which have been used by me for object analysis and design The whole pr...more

Extreme Programming has a large emphasis on the concept of refactoring: Writing code once and only once. Patterns, particularly the structural patterns mentioned by the Gang of Four, can give good...more

In class diagrams, Java programmers could use a generalization relationship to show that a class extends one of the classes in the Throwable hierarchy such as Exception, but a better approach woul...more

The definitive guides are from Grady Booch, Jim Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson: The Unified Modeling Language User Guide The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual The Unified Software Developme...more

In class diagrams you could elect to show that a class extends class Thread (using a generalization relationship) or that it implements interface Runnable (using either the “lollipop” no...more

Analysis pattern are for domain architecture, and design pattern are for implementation mechanism for some aspect of the domain architecture. In brief, analysis pattern are more high level and mor...more

Both aggregation and composition are special kinds of associations. Aggregation is used to represent ownership or a whole/part relationship, and composition is used to represent an even stronger ...more

Depending on what you mean by "official", there are some initiatives towards testing for competency in object-oriented design and analysis, and the UML is part of the package. Sun's Lev...more

Aggregation is a special kind of association that specifies a whole/part relationship between the aggregate (whole) and a component part. When compared to an ordinary association, some distinguish...more

An analysis pattern is a software pattern not related to a language or implementation problem, but to a business domain, such as accounting or health care. For example, in health care, the patien...more

A mailing list discussing the practice and principles of Extreme Programming is available for signup at http://www.egroups.com/group/extremeprogramming/.more

The Extreme Programming Explained book from Kent Beck provides a great start. You can also find more information online at http://www.extremeprogramming.org.more