Eclipse Plugin
PatternBox is a design pattern editor for Eclipse. It creates Java classes and interfaces that can be customized depending on your application needs. Most approaches to that issue are wizard-dominated. This means you have to complete the whole design pattern instance at once. Using PatternBox you have freedom and flexibility to insert new pattern members whenever you want.
PatternBox offers a template based code generator. The generator makes intensive use of Eclipse's Java development tooling (JDT) and the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE). Both features must be available to run the plugin. The XML-based template mechanism makes it possible to define your own code templates. The current plug-in version includes 16 design patterns of the Gang of Four (GoF).
Download
Download the plugin and unzip it into your Eclipse plugins directory. Note that you have to restart Eclipse to make the plugin available.
Eclipse Indigo (3.7.x) / JDK version: 1.6.x
- Binary: patternbox_1.1.7.zip (130KB)
- Source: patternbox_src_1.1.7.zip (93KB)
Eclipse Version 3.3 / JDK version: 1.5.x
- Binary: patternbox_1.1.6.zip (123KB)
- Source: patternbox_src_1.1.6.zip (90KB)
Plugin Documentation