Benefits of Design Patterns

• Inspiration
• Patterns don't provide solutions, they inspire solutions.
• Patterns explicitly capture expert knowledge and design tradeoffs and make this expertise widely available.
• Ease the transition to object-oriented technology.

 

• Patterns improve developer communication
• Pattern names form a vocabulary.

 

• Help document the architecture of a system
• Enhance understanding.

 

• Design patterns enable large-scale reuse of software architectures