Comments on: UIEtips: Components Versus Patterns http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2009/01/09/uietips-components-vs-patterns/ UIE\'s latest insights on the world of design Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:08:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Mike Brockington http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2009/01/09/uietips-components-vs-patterns/comment-page-1/#comment-145189 Mike Brockington Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:48:31 +0000 http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/?p=776#comment-145189 I suspect that part of the problem here is the over-simplification of the terminology. Again and again we see a single (pre-existing) word being over-loaded with a new meaning in a specific context. So: "Design Patterns" is normally referred to as just "Patterns" and similarly with "Components". The latter is especially bad, as it has meaning in every industry - the web site in question may well be for the manufacturer of components for some industry, for which each product may itself have numerous components. To a software developer, a component is a very specific amount of code, and very different from a page component (visual block), which may be built from beans, procedures, DLL's etc. If the headline had been: should I build a "Design Pattern Library" or a "Page Component Library" the conversation would surely have been much shorter. I suspect that part of the problem here is the over-simplification of the terminology. Again and again we see a single (pre-existing) word being over-loaded with a new meaning in a specific context.
So: “Design Patterns” is normally referred to as just “Patterns” and similarly with “Components”. The latter is especially bad, as it has meaning in every industry – the web site in question may well be for the manufacturer of components for some industry, for which each product may itself have numerous components. To a software developer, a component is a very specific amount of code, and very different from a page component (visual block), which may be built from beans, procedures, DLL’s etc.

If the headline had been: should I build a “Design Pattern Library” or a “Page Component Library” the conversation would surely have been much shorter.

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