Cyrille Martraire

For tools to be aware of patterns, the patterns must be formalized, at least partially. At this point I must quote Gregor Hohpe to clarify my thoughts, as I strongly agree with his skipticism:
Typically, when people ask me about “codifying” or “toolifying” patterns my first reaction is one of skepticism. Patterns are meant to be [...]

Composite patterns, such a the Bureaucracy pattern, are patterns built by the composition of other “smaller” patterns. However even usual design patterns can be considered composite patterns made of smaller subpatterns.
The goal is therefore to find out which are the main subpatterns that enable to reconstruct as many design patterns as possible.
The subpatterns
From an early [...]

As part of the Patternity effort, I spent some time creating a simple Java API to generate UML diagrams programmatically from Java, in SVG format.
This small API called for now Patternity Graphic is working and available here: patternitygraphic_src as a source Zip (alpha release of course).
It can render small class diagrams with hierarchic, flow and [...]

I have experimented an approach that considers every design pattern as the recursive composition of smaller patterns. This led to a prototype tool to illustrate its benefits by generating design-level documentation of annotated source code.
Eat your own dog food
The source code of this tool itself was used as the code base to apply the tool [...]