Conclusion

In this chapter, we explored the concept of design patterns. Patterns are part of everyday life, and this is just the way you should be thinking about object-oriented designs. As with many things pertaining to information technology, the roots for solutions are founded in real-life situations.

Although this chapter covered design patterns only briefly , you should explore this topic in greater detail by picking up one of the books referenced at the end of this chapter.

This book has covered a lot of material. The intent is to provide a high-level overview to the concepts involved in the OO thought process. I hope this book has whet your appetite for this subject and you will seek out other books that go into far more detail. Many of the individual topics covered in this book ”such as UML and use cases ”have complete books devoted to them. Good hunting!