object-oriented software engineering practical software development using uml and java

Object-Oriented Software EngineeringPractical Software Development using UML and Java

Design Patterns – Part 2Sources:

Chapter 6: Using Design Patterns, and

Chapter 30 (parts) Designing the Logical Architecture with Patterns

Craig Larman’s Text: Applying UML and Patterns, Chaps: 16, 22, & 23.

© Lethbridge/Laganière 2001 Chapter 6: Using design patterns 2

Grasp Pattern – The Controller PatternThis GRASP Pattern is very useful for those developing web-based applications, among other things.

Problem: Who should be responsible for handling an input system ‘event?’

So, first, what is a “system event?”System Event – event generated by external actor. Associated with system operations in response to a system event.

Example: An actor may depress a button signifying End Sale, but this is only used to indicate a desired system operation.

The ‘View’ certainly does NOT realize this request. Rather, it is passed on to a controller.

Controller Pattern

Solution: Assign the responsibility for handling some kind of event message to some kind of class representing one of the following choices:

A class that represents overall system, device, or subsystem (façade controller)

or

A class that represents a use case scenario within which the system event occurs, often named

<usecasename> Handler, or <UseCaseName> Coordinator or <UseCaseName> Session



Controller Pattern:

A Controller is a non-user interface object responsible for receiving or handling a system event.

A Controller may represent a receiver of a signal or a handler of all system events in a use case scenario.

Input events might come from a GUI operated by a person, or a call from a telecommunications switch, or a signal from a sensor, etc.

(Note that classes such as window, applet, widget, view, document, etc. are not used. These kinds of classes do not fulfill the tasks associated with system events; rather, these typically receive events and delegate them to some kind of controller.)


Controller Pattern: System Events

Most applications have ‘System Events.’

Typically the ‘system’ is modeled as a class during analysis

Consider: (Larman)System

endSale()enterItem()makeNewSale()makePayment()…

Do not infer that there will be a class named System in Design.Rather, during Design, a Controller class is assigned the responsibilities for system operations.

Remember who is developing requirements and performing analysis….. We simply do not know what the implementation (solution) will be at this time.


Controller:

Who is the Controller for System Events?

Presumably, there is an interface layer (a GUI, sensor activation, other things…) that needs to send a message (a system event message) to the application or domain layer

A Controller (coordinator…) is the class of object that is responsible for receiving such a message and delegating the follow-on work to other objects.

A Controller object in this context is often a kind of ‘façade’ onto the domain layer from an interface layer.


Controller - DiscussionIn all cases, some kind of ‘Handler’ for these events must be chosen.

It is this Controller Pattern that provides some guidance for generally acceptable suitable choices.

Again, a controller class is often some kind of façade into the domain (application) layer from the interface (boundary) layer.

Often, we have a single controller for an entire use case,

If so, then the state of the use case is maintained in the Controller.


Controller - Discussion

We want to be careful to NOT give Controllers too much responsibility.

Controller classes delegate work to other objects;

They coordinate / control the activity, but NOT do too much of the work itself other than coordinating and sequencing.

But remember, the Controller ‘knows’ where the Model is and what is available to satisfy the system events.

Controller - Discussion

Several different kinds of Controllers.

Main two:

Façade controller, and

Use Case controller



Controllers – Categories: Façade Controller

This kind of controller in design may represent the system, a device, or a subsystem, as we have stated.

Select some class name that suggests a ‘cover’ or façade over the other layers of the application, and that provides the main point of service calls from the UI layer down to other layers.

Again, it is a class that represents the entire software system or subsystem.

Note: ‘Façade’ Controllers are used when there are not too many events to control, and there is not sufficient need for alternating controllers.


Controllers – Categories: Use Case Controller

Use Case Controllers – Usually a different controller for each use case

Note that a use case controller is NOT a domain object; in fact, it is a fabrication used to handle events.

Consider switching to a use case controller when a façade controller starts becoming too large and starts to lose cohesion and starts having high coupling.

A use case controller is a good choice when there are a number of system events across different processes; it factors their handling into manageable classes and

Also forms the basis for knowing the state of the current scenario in progress.

The Use Case Controller Pattern


Additional Controllers: Page and Front

Two other design patterns related to Use Case controllers:

Page Controller, and

Front Controller

In a Page Controller pattern, the controller uses a single Presenter which interacts with the Model (the data for the page). When it receives a request, the Page Controller can determine which partial View to display within the page, and then interact with that View following the MVP pattern.

In the Front Controller pattern, a separate controller examines each request and determines which page to display. Each page is a complete MVP implementation, with its own View, and each Presenter interacts with the View and the Model (the data)


Presenter

Model–View–Presenter (MVP) is a derivative of the Model–View–Controller (MVC) software pattern, also used mostly for building user interfaces.

In MVP the presenter assumes the functionality of the "middle-man" (played by the controller in MVC).

Additionally, the view is responsible for handling the UI events (like mouseDown, keyDown, etc), which is normally the controller's job.

Eventually, the Model becomes strictly a domain model.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_pattern

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_model

Presenter - more

MVP is a user interface design pattern engineered to facilitate automated unit testing and improve the separation of concerns in presentation logic:

The Model is an interface defining the data to be displayed or otherwise acted upon in the user interface.

The View is an interface that displays data (the model) and routes user commands (events) to the Presenter to act upon that data.

The Presenter acts upon the model and the view. It retrieves data from repositories (the model), and formats it for display in the view.



Connection to the UP In the UP, we use the terms boundary, control, and entity classes.

Boundary objects are the abstractions of the interfaces; Entity objects are the application-independent (and usually persistent) domain software objects, and Control objects are the use case handlers as described in the Controller pattern.

Boundary Objects: We know from our study of the UP that interface objects (e.g. windows or widgets) and the presentation layer should NOT have the responsibility for fulfilling system events.

System operations should be handled by the application logic or domain layers of objects rather than in the interface layer of a system.


Connection to the UP – Read on your ownA Controller object is typically a client-side object within the same process as the UI (for example, an application with a Java Swing GUI), and so is not exactly applicable when the UI is a Web client in a browser, and there is a server-side software involved.

In the latter case, there are various common patterns of handling the system events that are strongly influenced by the chosen server-side technical framework, such as Java servlets.

Nevertheless, it is a common idiom to create server-side use case controllers with either a servlet for each use case or an Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) session bean for each use case.

The server-side session object represents a ‘session’ of interaction with an external actor.


More details…Read on your Own

If the UI is not a web client (for example, it is a Swing or Windows GUI), but the application calls on remote services, it is still common to use the Controller pattern.

The UI forwards the request to the local client-side Controller, and the Controller may forward all or part of the request handling on to remote services.

This design lowers the coupling of the UI to remote services, and makes it easier, for example, to provide the services either locally or remotely, through the indirection of the client-side Controller.

To summarize, the Controller receives the service requests from the UI layer and coordinates their fulfillment, usually by delegation to other objects.


Thesis Topic

Testing Design Patterns with various architectures.

Comprehensive survey of design classes and appropriate applications.

Lots of research possibilities with design patterns and their various derivatives…


The Façade Pattern (Gang of Four) -5• Context:

—Often, an application contains several complex packages. - In Larman, a complex package may be: subsystem, package or complex

class.—A programmer working with such packages has to manipulate many

different classes • Problem:

—How do you simplify the view that programmers have of a complex package? (again, ‘package’ is generic….)

—(Sometimes we have very large classes that users of these classes may incur tremendous overhead. Is all the overhead necessary??)

• Forces: —It is difficult for a programmer to understand / use an entire subsystem —If several different application classes call methods of the complex package,

then any modifications made to the package will necessitate a complete review of all these classes.


Façade Pattern (GofF) For Subsystem Packages:

• Here, the most common pattern of access is Façade, a GoF design pattern.

• We have a public façade object defining the services for the subsystem, and clients collaborate with the façade, not internal subsystem components.

• The façade should not normally expose many low-level operations. Rather, it exposes a small number of high-level operations – the coarse-grained services.

• A façade does not normally do its own work. Rather, it is consolidator or mediator to the underlying subsystem objects, which do the work.

• The façade is a wrapper and single point of access into the ‘rules engine’ of a subsystem.

• Other packages do not see the implementation of the subsystem, as it is hidden behind the façade.

Façade PatternFacade pattern: software engineering design pattern commonly used with OOP.

A facade is an object that provides a simplified interface to a larger body of code, such as a subsystem or a class library.

Below: The façade class abstracts Packages 1,2, and 3 from the rest of the application.

Clients use the façade pattern to access resources from the packages.

They are going to ‘doStuff’ with the objects c1, c2, and c3



Façade• Another view:

«PackageClass3»

«PackageClass2»

«PackageClass1»

*****

*****

«Facade»

We create a special class called a <<Façade>>, which simplifies the use of the package.The Façade class simply contains a simplified set of public methods.

Result is the creation of a class containing the most often used / needed facilities in the package. Thus other client elements desiring services of this complex package can avail themselves of the Façade class, where it is likely what services they want are simpler to acquire.

Since we are talking about a complex package, other clients that need some of the complexities of the package can access these services as they normally would – via the public interfaces of these other classes.


Façade• Example: ****** RegularFlight

******Person

Airline

findFlightmakeBookingdeleteBooking

Airline reservation systems have many classes and methods.

Some design elements, like subsystems, may need to interact with the airline system but don’t want to be exposed to any changes that might be made to it (via dependencies).

So, we can define and Airline class to be a <<Façade>> that contains methods (access) to the most important query and booking operations in other classes in the airline system.

Thus any dependency arising from this relation is only on the Façade class.

Here, above, via the Airline façade class, we have access to two other classes from other likely complex packages

<<façade>>


The Singleton Pattern (Gang of Four) 3

• Context: —It is very common to find classes for which only one

instance should exist (singleton) - Examples: a Main Window; Company or University class.

• Problem:

—How do you ensure that it is never possible to create more than one instance of a singleton class?

• Forces:

—The use of a public constructor cannot guarantee that no more than one instance will be created.

—The singleton instance must also be accessible to all classes that require it. But there must be only one!


Singleton

Company

theCompany

Company «private»getInstance

if (theCompany==null) theCompany= new Company();

return theCompany;

«Singleton»

- theInstance

getInstanceHave a private class variable, possibly called, ‘theInstance.’ This stores the instance.

Then have a public class method(static method) possibly called,‘getInstance.’

First time method is called, it creates Here, Company class may embody several a single instance (object) and stores it in important characteristics of the Company theInstance.. Subsequent calls simply (operations and attributes). return theInstance.

The public class method getInstance() makesA private Constructor, which ensures this instance globally accessible. (it returns no other class will be able to create theinstance). an instance of the singleton class is Note: effectively, the Singleton instance is needed. effectively a global variable. Minimize these.

Controversy

There is criticism of the use of the singleton pattern, as some consider it an anti-pattern, judging that it is overused, introduces unnecessary restrictions in situations where a sole instance of a class is not actually required, and introduces global state into an application

The Abstract Factory, Builder, and Prototype patterns can use Singletons in their implementation.

Façade objects are often Singletons because only one Façade object is required.


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