Venkat Subramaniam at a talk today mentioned about Cascade Method pattern or Train Wreck pattern which looks something like: someObject.method1().method2().method3().finalResult()

Few might associate this with the builder pattern, but its not the same. Anyways lets have a look at an example for this in Java with out the use of lambda [...]

We all have at least once in our coding life time done this: “Concatenate the elements of a List into a comma separated string”. And each time we have spent some time figuring out how to do it or sometimes we copy the code from a previous implementation. Lets see how we can implement this [...]

I have been trying to fit in lambda expressions in the code I write and this simple example is a consequence of the same. For those totally unaware of Lambda Expressions in Java, I would recommend them to read this [...]

Template Method pattern is one of the 23 design patterns explained in the famous Design Patterns book by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides. The intent of this pattern is stated as:

Define the skeleton of an algorithm in an operation, deferring some steps to subclasses. TemplateMethod lets [...]