Re: naming convention

From:
Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:53:49 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<24535832.204.1319075629822.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prfk19>
On Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:09:24 PM UTC-7, markspace wrote:

On 10/19/2011 3:19 PM, Roedy Green wrote:

There are basically two types: read only and read-modify.

It should be a design pattern.


I can't think of any design patterns for "read a bunch a files."
However, what you're doing, with some additions or modifications, sounds
suspiciously similar to map-reduce. You might want to take a look at
that to see if your use model could be adapted to fit the map reduce
pattern.

It's not officially a design pattern, but it comes up often enough where
I think perhaps it should be, at least for some specialized forms of
processing data.

<http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.2/mapred_tutorial.html>


What makes something "officially" a design pattern? Is there a Design Pattern Agency that issues official a DPA Seal of Approval?

If it's a pattern, and it is at the design level, isn't it perforce a design pattern, "officially" or not notwithstanding?

--
Lew

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