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 ...

The GoF’s Design Patterns book has been praised by many, but it hasn’t stood the test of time without some critique. One well-known critic is Mark Jason Dominus, ...

Beyond Sun’s resources, other publications offer J2EE design pattern information, including various Java industry magazines or Websites (such as JavaWorld), as well as numerous books.

When Design Patterns Are Evil. Have you ever been on a project in which all of your team members have just gone through an intense week of design pattern training? It's painful, as the project ends up ...

The book identifies 85 SOA design patterns which have been developed and thoroughly vetted to ensure that a service-oriented architecture does achieve the flexibility and loose coupling promised.

If you’re curious, check out the book: Design Patterns, written by a group of authors who’s names are so hard to remember that we shall collectively refer to them as “the Big Four.” ...

Types of design patterns. The official reference book on design patterns is “Design Patterns – Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software”. It outlines 23 design patterns, ...