A Structural Composition Approach to Glue Design Patterns Sherif M. Yacoub and Hany H. Ammar West Virginia University To improve software productivity, we have to stop developing applications from scratch and make use of exiting solutions that have been applied, tested, and proven useful in successful projects.
Patterns promise new design reuse benefits early in the development lifecycle.
To reap the benefits of deploying these proven design solutions, we need to define systematic development approaches to construct application designs using patterns. The approach glues the design structure of patterns at various levels of abstraction for developing pattern-oriented designs. We use a running example to describe the application of each step. The POAD approach produces hierarchical traceable design models that capture interaction between patterns. Inc. All rights reserved.