Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Chapter 1 Introduction to Software Patterns.

Description of Patterns.

Pattern Name.

Synopsis.

Context.

Forces.

Solution.

Consequences.

Implementation.

Known Uses.

Code Example.

Related Patterns.

A Very Brief History of Patterns.

Organization of This Book.

Chapter 2 Overview of UML.

Class Diagram.

Collaboration Diagram.

Statechart Diagram.

Deployment Diagram.

Chapter 3 The Software Life Cycle.

Chapter 4 Transaction Patterns.

Acid Transaction.

Composite Transaction.

Two Phase Commit.

Audit Trail.

Chapter 5 Distributed Architecture Patterns.

Shared Object.

Object Request Broker.

Object Replication.

Redundant Independent Objects.

Prompt Repair.

Mobile Agent.

Demilitarized Zone.

Process Pairs.

Chapter 6 Distributed Computing Patterns.

Object Identifier.

Registry.

Protection Proxy.

Publish-Subscribe.

Retransmission.

Mailbox.

Heavyweight/Lightweight.

Heartbeat.

Connection Multiplexing.

Chapter 7 Concurrency Patterns.

Session Object.

Lock File.

Static Locking Order.

Optimistic Concurrency.

Thread Pool.

Ephemeral Cache Item.

Transaction State Stack.

Chapter 8 Temporal Patterns.

Time Server.

Versioned Object.

Temporal Property.

Chapter 9 Database Patterns.

Persistence Layer.

CRUD.

Stale Object.

Type Conversion.

IsDirty.

Lazy Retrieval.

Appendix A Persistence Framework.

Bibliography.

Index.