Imagine a workshop of a racing team. The very first thing you will notice is that everything has its own place; spanners hanging on walls sorted by size, other tools placed in drawers, divided by their purpose, bolts and nuts placed in separate dividers and once again sorted by size. Everything is labeled, clean and in order. Now imagine how would it be to work in such an environment, where every single item has its specific place. I reckon that after the first few days, you would be able to point to where everything is with your eyes closed! Such a degree of segregation and organisation makes our lives much easier and it's a pleasure to work with.
Architectural and design patterns help software architects to break systems in to smaller, more maintainable sections organised by their functionality and usage. The biggest benefit of patterns is that someone has already solved problems we may face and by utilising patterns such as Transactional Script, Domain Model or Data Mapper in your application it gives us, as developers, some good guidelines on how it should be designed. (more...)
