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Title: Design Patterns for Object-Oriented Software Development by Wolfgang Pree, Erich Gamma ISBN: 0-201-42294-8 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: January, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Wannabe
Comment: First, counter to the Amazon listing, Erich Gamma has nothing to do with
this book -- though I would guess that he would probably be willing to
articulate his opinion about it if asked.

Second, this book has little in it that is of practical use to the
everyday programmer. A German habilitation thesis re-hashed
as a consumer book, it creates its own worldview of software
development in a way that is technically compatible with the
GOF view, but only in the sense that the structure of a broken
glass is compatible with the original. The book has none of
the insight that comes from the Alexanderian tradition of patterns.

There are a few parts of the book that are harmless: the "hot
spot" metaphor, for which this book is best known, is useful.
But its articulation in the domain engineering literature, which
predates this book book by a decade, is more thorough and
applicable. Perhaps Pree's legacy will be the introduction of a
cute phrase for something that all designers have long found
useful, and which all but the most clueless designers have found
obvious.

Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book about design pattern
Comment: It was a coincidence that I found this book. First I thought - just another book about that topic. But was the book has to give is far more than many other books of this topic do. I think it is at least worth the same as Design Patterns by the gang of four. In my opinion someone should read it before that book. It offers a view from above. I never want to miss it.

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