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Next pattern is called

Tool Façade (or Tool Facade)

It is used when there is a tool with a cumbersome interface like command line with many options and there is a need for a better and easier to use interface, for example, GUI. This can be illustrated on the following UML component diagram:

Excellent example of this pattern is:

StressPrinters

designed as a GUI wrapper around command line tool AddPrinter. Adding the powerful GUI interface allowed to extend its functionality and even find new domains, like testing, where the tool can be used. Excellent information about this tool can be found in the article:

Understanding and using Citrix StressPrinters

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This entry was posted on Sunday, July 20th, 2008 at 4:19 pm and is filed under DebugWare Patterns, Debugging, Software Architecture, Software Technical Support, Tools. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.