Acknowledgments

My personal understanding of good analysis, good design, and the patterns themselves has been enormously impacted by my association with a number of very smart and helpful colleagues. Among them are (alphabetically):

Sassan Azhadi

David Bernstein

Max Guernsey III

Amir Kolsky

Robert C. Myers

Alan Shalloway

James Trott

Also, several other authors, most of whom I do not know personally, have been essential to my development as a technology professional through their written work:

Christopher Alexander

Joshua Bloch

James O. Coplien

Bruck Eckel

Eric Freeman

The “Gang of Four” (GoF):

Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

Robert C. Martin

Robert M. Pirsig

Elisabeth Robson

Gerald Weinberg

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock