Description
A practical introduction to the important new topic of object-oriented design patterns. This book describes pure abstraction-based object-oriented software development - the design and usage of semi-finished reusable components and sybsystems which are based on abstractions of the real world. It starts with an introduction to abstraction based on object-oriented software development. The current state of the art in design patterns is discussed in detail, with an emphasis on the meta patterns approach which describes patterns on a high abstraction level, ignoring language-specific and domain dependent details. Examples demonstrate how the meta pattern approach can be applied in the realm of the GUI application framework E++, which supports GUI development in C++ on several UNIX platforms.
