Design Patterns in Java Tutorial

Design patterns represent the best practices used by experienced object-oriented software developers. Design patterns are solutions to general problems that software developers faced during software development. These solutions were obtained by trial and error by numerous software developers over quite a substantial period of time.

This tutorial will take you through step by step approach and examples using Java while learning Design Pattern concepts.

This Design Pattern tutorial is based on the latest Java 24 version.

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Our Design Pattern tutorial provides various examples in Java to explain the concepts. To compile and execute the given Java programming examples in your browser itself, we have provided Online Java Compiler. You can edit and run almost all the examples directly from your browser without the need to set up your development environment.

Try to click the icon to run the following Java code to print conventional "Hello, World!" using Java Programming.

Below code box allows you to change the value of the code. So, please try to change the value inside println() and run it again to verify the result.

public class MyFirstJavaProgram {

   /* This is my first java program.
    * This will print 'Hello, World!' as the output
    */

   public static void main(String []args) {
      System.out.println("Hello, World!"); // prints Hello, World!
   }
}

Who Should Learn Design Patterns

This tutorial is designed for Software Professionals who are willing to learn Design Patterns in simple and easy steps. This tutorial will give you great understanding on Design Pattern concepts and after completing this tutorial you will be at intermediate level of expertise from where you can take yourself at higher level of expertise.

Prerequisites to Learn Design Patterns

To maximize the benefits of this tutorial, readers should have a basic understanding of Java programming, text editor and execution of programs etc.

Design Patterns Jobs and Opportunities

As Java is very in demand, and all the major companies are recruiting Java programmers to develop their desktop, web, and mobile applications. Knowledge of Design Patterns can help you to become the next potential employee for any of the major IT companies.

Design Pattern Online Quizzes

This Design Pattern tutorial helps you prepare for technical interviews and certification exams. We have provided various quizzes and assignments to check your learning level. Given quizzes have multiple-choice types of questions and their answers with short explanations.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Pattern Tutorial

There are some important frequently asked questions (FAQs) about Design Patterns, this section lists them down along with their answers briefly −

What are Design Patterns?

Design patterns represent the best practices used by experienced object-oriented software developers. Design patterns are solutions to general problems that software developers faced during software development. These solutions were obtained by trial and error by numerous software developers over quite a substantial period of time.

What is Gang of Four (GOF)?

In 1994, four authors Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides published a book titled Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software which initiated the concept of Design Pattern in Software development. These authors are collectively known as Gang of Four (GOF).

Name types of Design Patterns?

Design patterns can be classified in three categories: Creational, Structural and Behavioral patterns.

• Creational Patterns - These design patterns provide a way to create objects while hiding the creation logic, rather than instantiating objects directly using new opreator. This gives program more flexibility in deciding which objects need to be created for a given use case.

• Structural Patterns - These design patterns concern class and object composition. Concept of inheritance is used to compose interfaces and define ways to compose objects to obtain new functionalities.

• Behavioral Patterns - These design patterns are specifically concerned with communication between objects.

What are J2EE Patterns?

These design patterns are specifically concerned with the presentation tier. These patterns are identified by Sun Java Center.

What is Factory pattern?

Factory pattern is one of most used design pattern in Java. This type of design pattern comes under creational pattern as this pattern provides one of the best ways to create an object.

In Factory pattern, we create object without exposing the creation logic to the client and refer to newly created object using a common interface.

What is Abstract Factory pattern?

Abstract Factory patterns work around a super-factory which creates other factories. This factory is also called as factory of factories. This type of design pattern comes under creational pattern as this pattern provides one of the best ways to create an object.

In Abstract Factory pattern an interface is responsible for creating a factory of related objects without explicitly specifying their classes. Each generated factory can give the objects as per the Factory pattern.

What is Singleton pattern?

Singleton pattern is one of the simplest design patterns in Java. This type of design pattern comes under creational pattern as this pattern provides one of the best ways to create an object.

This pattern involves a single class which is responsible to create an object while making sure that only single object gets created. This class provides a way to access its only object which can be accessed directly without need to instantiate the object of the class.