The Collaboration Of Patterns – A Case Study

Abstract

Patterns are a promising technique for achieving widespread reuse of software architectures. They document existing, well-proven design experience and help you find appropriate solutions to design problems. Patterns, however, are usually interwoven with each other in a real-world software system. It is challenging and also needs some experience to compose patterns to a large structure in a meaningful way. In this paper, we take a medical imaging application as an example to describe how we combine a collection of patterns and organize them into a large software architecture. Instead of repeating each individual pattern in detail, we focus on how its constituent patterns are connected with each other. We also address some lessons learned from applying a pattern-based strategy to developing such a large application system.