Experience Using Design Patterns to Develop Reusable Objects-Oriented

10, October, 1995. Section 2 illustrates an example pattern description that is a synopsis of material from [1]. Section 3 is new material that summarizes the lessons learned while applying a design pattern-based reuse strategy on production large-scale distributed systems being developed on several commercial systems. Design patterns help to enhance software quality by address-ing fundamental challenges in large-scale system develop-ment. These challenges include communication of archi-tectural knowledge among developers, accommodating new design paradigms or architectural styles, and avoiding de-velopment traps and pitfalls that are usually learned only by experience. This article describes lessons learned from applying a design pattern-based reuse strategy to develop object-oriented communication software frameworks for sev-eral production distributed systems. Design patterns are in danger of becoming yet another buzzword. This article at-tempts to replace the hype with insights and recommendations gained from several years of experience.