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Design Patterns and Best Practices in Java

You're reading from Design Patterns and Best Practices in Java A comprehensive guide to building smart and reusable code in Java

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786463593

Length 280 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

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Java design patterns

Concepts

Design Patterns

Authors (4):

Singh

Puri

Ianculescu

Torje

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. From Object-Oriented to Functional Programming FREE CHAPTER

2. Creational Patterns

3. Behavioral Patterns

4. Structural Patterns

5. Functional Patterns

6. Let's Get Reactive

7. Reactive Design Patterns

8. Trends in Application Architecture

9. Best Practices in Java

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Index

The state pattern

A finite state machine is an important concept in computer science. It has a strong mathematical base and it represents an abstract machine that can be in a finite number of states. Finite state machines are used in all fields of computer science.

The state pattern is just an implementation of a finite state machine in object-oriented design. The class diagram is as follows:

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Authors (4)

Singh

Singh

Kamalmeet Singh got his first taste of programming at the age of 15, and he immediately fell in love with it. After spending over 14 years in the IT Industry, Kamal has matured into an ace developer and a technical architect. He is also the coauthor of a book on Design Patterns and Best Practices in Java. The technologies he works with range from cloud computing, machine learning, augmented reality, serverless applications to microservices and so on.

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Puri

Puri

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Ianculescu

Ianculescu

Adrian Ianculescu is a software developer with 20 years programming experience, of which 12 years were in Java, starting with C++, then working with C#, and moving naturally to Java. Working in teams ranging from 2 to 40, he realized that making software is not only about writing code and became interested in software design and architecture, in different methodologies and frameworks. After living the corporate life for a while, he started to work as a freelancer and entrepreneur following his childhood passion to make games.

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Torje

Torje

Lucian-Paul Torje is an aspiring software craftsman working in software industry for almost 15 years. He is interested in almost anything that has to do with technology. This is why he has worked with everything from MS-DOS TSR to microservices, from Atmel microcontrollers to Android, iOS and Chromebooks, from C/C++ to Java, and from Oracle to MongoDB. Whenever someone is needed to use new and innovative approaches to solve a problem, he is keen to give it a go!

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