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Books

Papers

• "A Debate on Language and Tool Support for Design Patterns" (Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL '00), Boston, MA, January 2000). A shoot-out between Craig Chambers, Bill Harrison, and John Vlissides over the roles and relative merits of patterns, languages, and tools.
  
  
• "Applying Design Patterns in Java," in Java Gems, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  
  
• "Extension Object," in Pattern Languages of Program Design 3, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1998. A pattern by Erich Gamma for extending class functionality noninvasively.
  
  
• "Industrial Experience with Design Patterns." ICSE-18 paper, co-authored by John Vlissides and a bunch of non-IBM pattern people, relating our experiences using design patterns in the field.

• "Automatic Code Generation from Design Patterns" (227 KB PDF). Draft version of paper that appears in IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 35, No. 2. An HTML version is also available.
  
  
• "Patterns Generate Architectures" (166 KB PostScript, 40 KB compressed). ECOOP '94 paper, co-authored by Kent Beck and Ralph Johnson, showing how patterns work together to form a software architecture.
  
  
• "Design Patterns: Abstraction and Reuse of Object-Oriented Design" (272 KB PostScript, 67 KB compressed). Original ECOOP '93 paper on design patterns.
  
  
• "Documenting Frameworks with Patterns" (342 KB PostScript, 64 KB compressed). OOPSLA '92 paper in which Ralph Johnson shows how patterns can make a framework easier to understand and use.

Articles

•  "Bridge à la Java," unpublished.
• "Composite à la Java, Part II," Java Report, September 2001.
• "Composite à la Java, Part I," Java Report, June 2001.
• "GoF à la Java," Java Report, March 2001.
• "The Compound Without a Name," Java Report, November 2000.
• "To Code or Not to Code, Part II," C++ Report, June 2000.
• "To Code or Not to Code, Part I," C++ Report, March 2000.
• "Visitor in Frameworks," C++ Report, Nov./Dec. 1999.
• "Tooled Composite," C++ Report, September 1999.
• "XP," C++ Report, June 1999.
• "JUnit: A Cook's Tour," Java Report, May 1999.
• "Compounding Command," C++ Report, April 1999.
• "Pluggable Factory, Part II," C++ Report, February 1999.
• "Pluggable Factory, Part I," C++ Report, Nov./Dec. 1998.
• "Composite Design Patterns (They Aren't What You Think)," C++ Report, June 1998.
• "Notation, Notation, Notation," C++ Report, April 1998.
• "Subject-Oriented Design," C++ Report, February 1998.
• "Multicast - Observer = Typed Message," C++ Report, Nov./Dec. 1997.
• "Multicast," C++ Report, September 1997.
• "Latter-Day Events," C++ Report, June 1997.
• "Patterns: The Top Ten Misconceptions," Object Magazine, March 1997.
• "Type Laundering," C++ Report, February 1997.
• "Generation Gap," C++ Report, Nov./Dec. 1996.
• "The Trouble with Observer," C++ Report, September 1996.
• "To Kill a Singleton," C++ Report, June 1996.
• "Protection, Part II: Membership Has Its Privileges," C++ Report, April 1996.
• "Protection, Part I: The Hollywood Principle," C++ Report, February 1996.
• "The Courier Pattern," Dr. Dobb's Sourcebook, Jan./Feb. 1996.
• "Seven Habits of Successful Pattern Writers," C++ Report, Nov./Dec. 1995.
• "Observations on Observer," Dr. Dobb's Sourcebook, Sept./Oct. 1995.
• "Visiting Rights," C++ Report, September 1995.
• "Orphanage, Adoption, and Surrogates," C++ Report, June 1995.
• "Designing Objects for Extension," Dr. Dobb's Sourcebook, May/June 1995
• "Pattern Hatching: Perspectives from the Gang of Four". C++ Report, March/April 1995.
• "Patterns for Reusable Object-Oriented Software," Dr. Dobb's Sourcebook, March/April 1995.

Presentations

• "An Introduction to Design Patterns" (426 KB PDF). 2-up slides from the ubiquitous tutorial, presented dozens of times in forums like OOPSLA, ECOOP, C++ World, ObjectWorld, USENIX C++/COOTS, various IBM conferences, ICSE, PLDI—you name it.

• "Designing with Patterns" (424 KB PDF). 2-up slides from another arguably overexposed tutorial. This one focuses on showing you how (not) to apply design patterns. Covers a slight superset of the material in Chapter 2 of Pattern Hatching.

• "Patterns: The Top Ten Misconceptions" (297 KB PDF). A talking-head version of the section in Pattern Hatching by the same name. Describes and dispels 10 recurring myths about patterns.

Miscellaneous

• Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming Award.

• Q&A on Pattern Hatching from an Addison-Wesley author interview, Fall 1998.

• Amazon.com interview, December 1998.
  
  
• Design Patterns CD named Best of Object-Oriented Programming for 1998 by Amazon.com.
  
  
• The EXE Questionnaire, August 2000.