Software Design Patterns

Throughout the documents below we use the term "API" (Application Programming Interface) in preference of the more correct term "interface" to avoid confusion with the reserved Java term interface)

Adapter

Facade

Difference between Facade and Adapter

Decorator

Strategy

Composite

Observer

Abstract Factory *

Factory *

Iterator *

Delegation *

Interface *

Interfaces vs. Abstract classes *

*  Published with kind courtesy of Olga Kazarina