As I got into Java seriously, I decided to give several Design Patterns books I own yet another try – I have skimmed through GoF’s master-piece number of times, but being a PHP programmer in PHP4 age, I just had no incentive to study patterns any deeper, as there clearly was no option to apply them. PHP5 is better wrt OO-tion but still looks like a toy.
Overall, I don’t understand the whole idea of implementing simple and easy-to-learn language, get popular, and then redesign the language to include all the goodies from “real languages like C/C++, Java”. But that’s topic for another post, I guess 
So, now when I have a little more time to experiment with Java, and as it is as object-oriented as one might dream, I wanted to study patterns in details. I plan to post number of articles later this month, but for now, I wanted to capture one (important if you are planning to use UML and Patterns) simple concept – that’s difference between Aggregation and Composition. As simple as it might seem, there quite a lot of people who don’t understand it. Read the rest of this entry
