Design Patterns Java™ Workbook

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Glossary

CONSTANT

A field that is static and thus widely accessible and final, with a fixed value.

CONTEXT

An object that contains information about the setting in which a group of other objects
are operating. In particular, a context may record which object of a group is current or
active.

CONTEXT-FREE LANGUAGE

A language that can be described with a grammar.

CORBA

Common object request broker architecture; a standard design, or common
architecture, for facilitating, or brokering, object requests that pass between systems.
In many applications, the use of CORBA has been displaced by RMI.

CYCLE

A path in which a node, or object, appears twice.

DEEP COPY

A complete copy of an object in which the new object's attributes are complete copies
of the original object's attributes.

DEMO

An example that shows how to use a class or a subsystem.

DESIGN PATTERN

A pattern—a way to pursue an intent—that operates at about a class level.
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