Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture

Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture is a series of software engineering books describing software design patterns.

David E. DeLano of C++ Report praised the first volume, writing, "Overall this text is good and I recommend it as an addition to any collection of books on patterns." He said "some of the language and grammar usage feels awkward to the reader" and some of the book has "stiffness and flow problems". Ian Graham reviewed the first volume in the Journal of Object-Oriented Programming. DBMS columnist David S. Linthicum found the first volume to be "the best book on patterns for application architects", while Bin Yang of JavaWorld thought it had "many interesting architecture and design patterns".

ACCU writer Ian Glassborow reviewed the second volume, writing, "This book is one of the more important contributions to the literature on 'patterns' and deserves to become a standard text on its specified area of interest." The Software Engineering Institute author Paul Clemente found the first two volumes to be "the best-known catalog of architectural patterns". Regarding the third volume, D. Murali recommended that software engineers should follow the "eager acquisition" pattern.

Architectural patterns

• Layers
• Pipes and filters
• Blackboard
• Broker
• Model–View–Controller
• Presentation–Abstraction–Control

Design patterns

• Whole–Part
• Master–Slave
• Proxy
• Command Processor
• View Handler
• Forwarder-Receiver
• Client–Dispatcher–Server
• Publisher–subscriber

Service access and configuration patterns

• Wrapper Facade
• Component Configurator
• Interceptor
• Extension interface

Event handling patterns

• Reactor
• Proactor
• Asynchronous Completion Token
• Acceptor-Connector

Synchronization patterns

• Scoped Locking
• Strategized Locking
• Thread-Safe Interface
• Double-checked locking

Concurrency patterns

• Active object
• Monitor Object
• Half-Sync/Half-Async
• Leader/Followers
• Thread-Specific Storage

Resource acquisition

• Lookup
• Lazy acquisition
• Eager acquisition

Resource lifecycle

• Caching
• Pooling
• Coordinator
• Resource Lifecycle Manager

Resource release

• Leasing
• Evictor

Software architecture

• Domain model
• Layers
• Model–View–Controller
• Presentation–Abstraction–Control
• Microkernel
• Reflection
• Pipes and filters
• Shared repository
• Blackboard
• Domain object

Distribution Infrastructure

• Message Channel
• Message endpoint
• Message translator
• Message route
• Publisher–subscriber
• Broker
• Client proxy
• Requestor
• Invoker
• Client request handler
• server request handler

Adaptation and execution

• Bridge
• Object Adapter
• Chain of responsitiblity
• Interpreter
• Interceptor
• Visitor
• Decorator
• Execute-Around Object
• Template method
• Strategy
• Null Object
• Wrapper Facade
• Declarative component configuration

Resource management

• Container
• Component Configurator
• Object manager
• Lookup
• Virtual Proxy
• Lifecycle callback
• Task coordinator
• Resource pool
• Resource cache
• Lazy Acquisition
• Eager Acquisition
• Partial Acquisition
• Activator
• Evictor
• Leasing
• Automated Garbage Collection
• Counting Handle
• Abstract Factory
• Builder
• Factory method
• Disposal Method

Database access

• Database Access Layer
• Data mapper
• Row Data Gateway
• Table Data Gateway
• Active Record

Patterns referenced in volume 5:

• Abstract Factory
• Acceptor-Connector
• Active Object
• Adapted Iterator
• Adapter
• Align Architecture and Organization (see Conway's Law)
• Application Controller
• Architect Also Implements
• Architecture Follows Organization
• Asynchronous Completion Token (ACT)
• Automated Garbage Collection
• Batch Iterator
• Batch Method
• Blackboard
• Bridge
• Broker
• Build Prototypes
• Builder
• Bureaucracy
• Business Delegate
• Cantrip
• Chain of Responsibility
• Class Adapter
• CLI Server
• Client Proxy
• Collections for States
• Combined Method
• Command
• Command Processor
• Command Sequence (see Composite Command)
• Community of Trust
• Compiler
• Completion Headroom
• Component Configurator
• Composite
• Composite Command
• Composite-Strategy-Observer (see Model-View-Controller (MVC))
• Context Object
• Conway's Law
• Cooperate, Don’t Control
• CORBA-CGI Gateway
• Data Access Object (DAO)
• Data is the Next Intel Inside
• Data Transfer Object (DTO)
• Decorator
• Disposal Method
• Distributed Callback
• Domain Appropriate Devices
• Domain Model
• Domain Object
• Domain Store
• Don't Flip the Bozo Bit
• Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII)
• ed
• Encapsulated Context (see Context Object)
• Engage Customers
• Enumeration Method
• Explicit Interface
• External Iterator
• Facade
• Factory Method
• Few Panes Per Window
• Filter
• Firewall Proxy
• Flat and Narrow Tree
• Forwarder-Receiver
• Front Controller
• Half-Sync/Half-Asynchronous
• Harnessing Collective Intelligence
• Immutable Value
• Information Just In Time
• Interceptor
• Internal Iterator (see Enumeration Method)
• Interpreter
• Invisible Hardware
• Involve Everyone
• Iterator
• Layers
• Leader/Followers
• Leveraging the Long Tail
• Macro Command (see Composite Command)
• Manager (see Object Manager)
• Mediator
• Memento
• Message
• Methods for States
• Mock Object
• Model-View-Controller (MVC)
• Monitor Object
• Mutable Companion
• Network Effects by Default
• Nouns and Verbs
• Null Object
• Object Adapter
• Object Manager
• Objects for States
• Observer
• Organization Follows Architecture
• Page Controller
• Perpetual Beta
• Pipes and Filters
• Pluggable Adapter
• Pluggable Factory
• Polyvalent-Program
• Presentation-Abstraction-Control (PAC)
• Proactor
• Prototype
• Prototype-Abstract Factory (see Pluggable Factory)
• Proxy
• Publisher-Subscriber
• Reactor
• Reflection
• Remote Proxy (see Client Proxy)
• Resource Lifecycle Manager (see Object Manager)
• Roguelike
• Separated Engine and Interface
• Short Menus
• Singleton
• Sink
• Smart Pointer
• Software Above the Level of a Single Device
• Some Rights Reserved
• Source
• Stable Intermediate Forms
• Standard Panes
• State (see Objects for States)
• Strategized Locking
• Strategy
• Template Method
• Template View
• The Long Tail (see Leveraging the Long Tail)
• The Perpetual Beta (see Perpetual Beta)
• Transfer Object (see Data Transfer Object)
• Transform View
• Two-Way Adapter
• Users Add Value (see Harnessing Collective Intelligence)
• View Handler
• Visitor
• Window Per Task
• Wrapped Class Adapter
• Wrapper (see Adapter and Decorator)
• Wrapper Facade