The Busy Java Developer's Guide to ECMAScript: Patterns

ECMAScript, better known by its original name, Javascript, remains one of the most popular--and misunderstood--programming languages in use today. While most developers see Javascript as a crippled form of its namesake (Java), it turns out that ECMAScript represents a powerful dynamically-typed language, easily equal to the other popular dynamic languages of the day (Python or Ruby).

In this presentation, we'll start looking at some of the O-O community's favorite design patterns (from the Gang-of-Four book as well as others) and examine their applicability to ECMAScript, including those patterns that work well here, those that don't, and a few new ones that wouldn't work well anywhere but here.

About Ted Neward

Ted Neward is an Architectural Consultant with Neudesic, LLC as well as the Principal with Neward & Associates. He speaks on the conference circuit discussing Java, .NET and XML service technologies, focusing on Java-.NET interoperability, programming languages, and virtual machine technologies. He has written several widely-recognized books in both the Java and .NET space, including the recently- released "Professional F#" and widely-acclaimed "Effective Enterprise Java". He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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