Precise Modeling of Design Patterns

Abstract. Design Patterns are now widely accepted as a useful concept for guiding and documenting the design of object-oriented software systems. Still the UML is ill-equipped for precisely representing design patterns. It is true that some graphical annotations related to parameterized collaborations can be drawn on a UML model, but even the most classical GoF patterns, such as Observer, Composite or Visitor cannot be modeled precisely this way. We thus propose a minimal set of modifi

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: UML
• Authors: Alain Le Guennec, Gerson Sunyé, Jean-Marc Jézéquel
• Keywords: Classical Gof Patterns, Design Patterns, Natural Language Processing, Object-oriented Software Systems, UML 2000