OSS Design Patterns

In the first two chapters of the book, we layout the telecommunications management landscape—including the driving forces and typical OSS architectures—and make the case for a pattern-based approach to the design of OSS interfaces. In the subsequent chapters we describe a number of architectural and programming patterns important to the design of OSS interfaces, and give examples of their implementation using various software development environments.

The main goal of the book is to present a compelling case for the adoption of a core set of design patterns across the OSS community that will help in the rapid delivery of effective and reliable management solutions. The authors support their case by focussing on a consistent presentation format, discussion of the relevance of each pattern to telecommunications management, and extensive code examples.They hope that the patterns will contribute to the growing ecosystem of best practices and standards, common code, and proven designs for OSS applications and their interfaces.