"Service Design Patterns" catalogs design patterns that cover the entire lifecycle of web services. InfoQ talked to Rob Daigneau regarding various topics related to the core idea behind the book.

InfoQ spoke with Jaroslav Tulach about his latest book Practical API Design. We are also making an excerpt from the book available for our readers.

Ideally the book would not focus on any given API, but rather be kind of like a "Parallel Programs Design Patterns" book. What has the Hive read and enjoyed on this topic?

When Design Patterns Are Evil Have you ever been on a project in which all of your team members have just gone through an intense week of design pattern training? It's painful, as the project ends up ...

The JDK’s built-in support for the Proxy design pattern The Proxy pattern is one of the most important design patterns because it provides an alternative to extending functionality with inheritance.