Skip to main content

Criticisms of Design Patterns

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Java Design Patterns
  • 3212 Accesses

Abstract

In this chapter, I present some of the criticisms of design patterns. Reading about the criticisms can offer real value. If you think critically about patterns before you design your software, you can predict your “return on investment” to some degree. Design patterns basically help you benefit from another people’s experience. This is often called experience reuse. You learn how they solved challenges, how they tried to adapt new behaviors in their systems, and so on. A pattern may not perfectly fit into your work, but if you concentrate on the best practices as well as the problems of a pattern at the beginning, you are more likely to make a better application.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Subscribe and save

Springer+
from €37.37 /Month
  • Starting from 10 chapters or articles per month
  • Access and download chapters and articles from more than 300k books and 2,500 journals
  • Cancel anytime
View plans

Buy Now

Chapter
EUR 29.95
Price includes VAT (Netherlands)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
EUR 46.99
Price includes VAT (Netherlands)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2019 Vaskaran Sarcar

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Sarcar, V. (2019). Criticisms of Design Patterns. In: Java Design Patterns. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4078-6_27

Download citation

Keywords

These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Publish with us

Policies and ethics