A good book on design patterns?

Hi there. Just wondering if anyone could recommend a good book on design patterns, for someone who's relatively experienced at the nuts and bolts of programming in a few languages, but hasn't really considered design patterns before? Someone recommended Gamma et al's, 'Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software' to me, but it is perhaps a little dated now. Any thoughts?

[404 byte] By [SimonCa] at [2007-10-3 6:49:31]
# 1
classics will be dated :)mark grand has one in java.martin fowler on refactoring.alan holub, many others
mchan0a at 2007-7-15 1:40:04 > top of Java-index,Other Topics,Patterns & OO Design...
# 2

Surprisingly, no one posted the link to the Sun J2EE Pattern blueprints:

http://java.sun.com/blueprints/corej2eepatterns/index.html

I also liked the O'Reilly publication "J2EE Design Patterns"

They are specific to J2EE architecture, but there's a lot of reuse available even if that's not the architecture you're working with.

Brian

brian@cubik.caa at 2007-7-15 1:40:04 > top of Java-index,Other Topics,Patterns & OO Design...