Asmir Mustafic has continued his series looking at building modular applications with part five looking specifically at some of the considerations and ideas to keep in mind when developing your modular applications.

This is the fifth post from a series of posts that will describe strategies to build modular and extensible applications. In this post we will take a general overview on how some popular design patterns and things to keep in mind when creating plugin based applications.

[...] Anthony Ferrara (alias ircmaxell), in this post blogged about the use of software patterns to implement plugin-based architectures. It is a great article and I suggest everybody to read it. As it is clear from the article, each of this software patterns has a specific use case and the choice of which one to use depends on which the of integration we want allow for the future plugins.

The article starts with a brief recap of some of the more common design patterns including the Observer, Strategy, Decorator and Chain of Responsibility. It then covers some quick uses of these patterns and shares two tips when developing a plugin system for the application and links to good examples for reference.