GOF

GOF

Gangs of Four Design Patterns is the collection of 23 design patterns from the book “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software”.

GoF Design Pattern Types

• Creational: The design patterns that deal with the creation of an object.
• Structural: The design patterns in this category deals with the class structure such as Inheritance and Composition.
• Behavioral: This type of design patterns provide solution for the better interaction between objects, how to provide lose coupling, and flexibility to extend easily in future.

Creational(5)

• Abstract
• Builder
• Factory
• Prototype
• Singleton

Structural(7)

• Adapter
• Bridge
• Composite
• Decorator
• Facade
• FlyWeight
• Proxy

Behavioral(11)

• Chain of Responsibility
• Command
• Interpreter
• Iterator
• Mediator
• Memento
• Observer
• Strategy
• State
• Template Method
• Visitor