Key pattern catalogs
A pattern is a named solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design. Patterns are most often cataloged in some kind of pattern repository. Some of them are published as books. The most popular and widely used pattern catalog is GOF.
GOF patterns
The Gang of Four (GOF), named after the creators of the catalog, started the pattern movement. The creators were mostly focused on designing and architecting object-oriented software. The ideas of Christopher Alexander were borrowed to Software Engineering Discipline and applied to application architecture, concurrency, security, and so on. The Gang of Four divided the catalog into structural, creational, and behavioral patterns. The original book used C++ and Smalltalk for explaining the concepts. These patterns have been ported and leveraged in most of the programming languages that exist today. Take a look at this table:
Sl. No. | Pattern Type | Patterns |
1 | Creational patterns | Abstract Factory, Builder, Factory Method, Prototype... |