Software Pattern Tutorials

• Pattern-Oriented Distributed Software Architectures. This tutorial is based on material in several volumes of the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. Many patterns from POSA1, POSA2, and POSA4 are presented in this tutorial.

• An Introduction to the Gang of Four (GoF) Design Patterns. This tutorial presents many GoF design patterns.

• Patterns, Frameworks and Middleware: Their Synergestic Relationships. This tutorial is based on a presentation I gave at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, Portland, Oregon, May 3--10, 2003. It presents an overview of patterns, frameworks, and middleware, describes how these technologies complement each other to enhance reuse and productivity, and then illustrates how they have been applied successfully in practice to improve the reusability and quality of complex software systems.

• C++ Network Programming: Mastering Complexity with ACE and Patterns. This tutorial describes the C++ wrapper facades from the C++NPv1 book on ACE.

• C++ Network Programming: Systematic Reuse with ACE and Frameworks. This tutorial describes the C++ frameworks from the C++NPv2 book on ACE.

• Introduction to Design Patterns. This tutorial explains what design patterns are and why they are useful, outlines the patterns from the ``Gang of Four'' Design Patterns Catalog, and presents a short case study of how they've been used in practice to simplify porting communication software from UNIX to Windows NT.

• Advanced C++ Features, Design Patterns, and Frameworks. This tutorial presents three complete case studies that illustrate how patterns from the ``Gang of Four'' Design Patterns Catalog can be combined with advanced C++ features to build flexible, reusable, and efficient frameworks and components. The case studies include building a system sort framework, a sort verification framework, and a class library for expression trees.

• Michael Stal's PowerPoint presentations on patterns and distributed object computing middleware, which describe some of the POSA1 and POSA2 patterns.

• Michael Kircher's PowerPoint presentation on patterns for resource management, which describe some of the POSA3 patterns.

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