The Israeli Patterns Reading Group

The Israeli PRG is a joint academy-industry forum for the study of software patterns and their applications. We try to promote joint learning by dividing the effort of studying the wealth of advanced material published about patterns. Each member chooses a topic and presents it to the group in one of the meetings. These presentations are usually accompanied by discussions that advance further learning.

We meet about once every other week. Each meeting takes about 2 hours and consists of two sessions. Further discussion is continued in the group's mailing list, or in private.

To join, please contact me.

To learn more about patterns, see The Patterns Home Page.

Members

• Alexander Ovsiankin (Sasha), TechSys
• Prof. Amiram Yehudai, TAU, Home page
• Amnon H. Eden, TAU, Home page
• Billy Weber, TAU
• David Feitelson, Tactline
• David Lorenz, Technion, Home page
• Erez Bashan, Kepler
• Juval Loewy, KLA-Tencor
• Ricardo Szmit, Smalltalk consultant, Home Page
• Roy Reshef, Efrat
• Tomer Sagi, Efrat, Home Page
• Dr. Shmuel Tyshberowitz (Tysh), TAU
• Yacov Eckel, Technion, Home Page
• Yonat Sharon, Home Page
• Dr. Joseph (Yossi) Gil, Technion (on sabbatical in IBM Watson Research Center)

Plans For Future Meetings

Below are some of the topics and publications we plan to study in the future. If you are interested in making a presentation about material from one of these sources (or about something else), please contact me.

Books:

• Pattern Languages of Program Design 3 by Robert C. Martin, Dirk Riehle, Frank Buschmann
  Some of the papers are available online from the PLoP96 site, as are the papers from PLoP97.

• Design Patterns for Object-Oriented Software Development by Wolfgang Pree

• Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, and Applications by Peter Coad, David North, Mark Mayfield

• CORBA Design Patterns by Thomas J. Mowbray, Raphael C. Malveau

• Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns by Doug Lea
  There is also an online supplement

• Patterns of Software: Tales From the Software Community by Richard P. Gabriel

• Relational-OO mapping patterns
• Agents and mobility patterns
• UI patterns
• Generic programming patterns

Past Meetings

Use MS Animation Player to view our presentations (.ppz files).

Date	Contents
Nov. 20, 1996	Amnon: Shopper,Late Creation patterns [PLoPD1]
Dec. 6, 1996	Ron: Terms and usage - pattern, design pattern, pattern language, framework, architecture.
Dec. 27, 1996	Liran: Patterns in the ACE framework (see the ACE home page). Amnon: Mechanizing the application of design patterns
Jan. 24, 1997	Amiram: Categories of patterns [PLoPD1, chapters 17-18]: Kinds of design patterns. David L.: Elaborating the Interpreter and the Visitor
Feb. 7, 1997	Roy: Patterns of reactive systems. [Sources: Barry Rubel, "Patterns for Generating a Layered Architecture", in PLoPD1, pp. 119-128; and Pierre Naccache, "Monitoring" (Draft)] Sasha: Patterns in Java toolkits (MS Animation, PDF)
Feb. 21, 1997	Shai: Whole - Part, Proxy variations [Siemens]
March 7, 1997	Yossi: Design patterns and inheritance mechanisms: Discussion
March 21, 1997	Juval: Experience with patterns: sample implementations of the GoF patterns [GoF]
April 11, 1997	Roy: Analysis patterns [Fowler] Yacov: Architectural patterns [Siemens]
May 2nd, 1997	Yacov: Architectural patterns (continue) Amnon: Analysis Patterns [Fowler]: Observations and Measurement
May 30, 1997	Amnon: Analysis Patterns (continue) Tomer: Tools & Materials
July 3, 1997	Tomer: Tool Integration; case study: UniDraw
July 31, 1997	Juval: The COM model See also: Component software
August 28, 1997	Yonat: Organizational patterns. Ricardo: Configurable Objects
Sep. 25, 1997	David L.: Patterns Tiling
Dec. 24, 1997	Amnon: LePUS - A Declarative Pattern Specification Language. Various formats (presentation and the complete article)
Feb. 5, 1998	David F.: Christopher Alexander's patterns