PATTERN-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE -- Table of Contents -- Foreword by Frank Buschmann -- Foreword by Steve Vinoski -- About This Book -- About The Authors -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Overview of Resource Management -- 1.2 Scope of Resource Management -- 1.3 Use of Patterns -- 1.4 Patterns in Resource Management -- 1.5 Related Work -- 1.6 Pattern Form -- 2 Resource Acquisition -- Lookup -- Lazy Acquisition -- Eager Acquisition -- Partial Acquisition -- 3 Resource Lifecycle -- Caching -- Pooling -- Coordinator -- Resource Lifecycle Manager -- 4 Resource Release -- Leasing -- Evictor -- 5 Guidelines for Applying Resource Management -- 6 Case Study: Ad Hoc Networking -- 6.1 Overview -- 6.2 Motivation -- 6.3 Solution -- 7 Case Study: Mobile Network -- 7.1 Overview -- 7.2 Motivation -- 7.3 Solution -- 8 The Past, Present, and Future of Patterns -- 8.1 The Past Four Years at a Glance -- 8.2 Where Patterns are Now -- 8.3 Where Will Patterns Go Tomorrow? -- 8.4 A Brief Note about the Future of Patterns -- 9 Concluding Remarks -- Referenced Patterns -- Notations -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Index of Patterns -- Index -- Index of Names.