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Introduction to Design Patterns

I highly recommend reading the essay "On the diffusion of Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language into Software Architecture" by Rohit Khare. That essay is a good primer on the principles behind Design Patterns and how they came into being.

Avalon takes many design patterns and architectural mindsets, and implements the best ones for Servers. There are different kinds of patterns that represent different aspects of Avalon. Avalon uses three main conceptual patterns called Inversion of Control, Multi-Dimensional Separation of Concerns, and Aspect Oriented Programming. Avalon also uses several architectural patterns like the Singleton and the Factory. Detailed information about all of these patterns will be included in their respective pages.

You can find more information about patterns from the following links:

  1. Brian Foote's Pattern documents



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