Design patterns for object-oriented software development (tutorial)

The tutorial gives an overview of state-of-the-art design patterns approaches, including pattern catalogs and framework patterns. A selection of useful patterns is discussed in detail. The tutorial also introduces socalled hot spot cards, which have proved to be a useful communications vehicle between domain experts and software engineers in order to exploit the potential of design patterns. In the early development phases hot spot cards help to capture those system aspects that have to be kept flexible. Case studies based on Java illustrate how to apply design patterns.