Different Types of Design Patterns

Design patterns provide solutions to common problems which occur in software design. Design patterns are about reusable designs and interactions of objects.

Types of Design Patterns

These can be organized in 4 separate pattern groups depending on the nature of the design problem they intend to solve.

1. Gang of Four Patterns
2. Enterprise Patterns
3. SOA and Messaging Patterns
4. Model-View Patterns

Advantages of Design Patterns

Design Patterns have following main advantages in software development.

1. Provide solutions to common problems which occur in software design.
2. Provide common platform for developers means developer can implement these in any language.
3. Provide a standard terminology and are specific to particular scenario.

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