Software patterns used

[Angelo404]

Dear all

I am a university student and for our project we need to find the software patterns the Mozilla Thunderbird is using. So far however i have not been able to find any solid information, i can only speculate what kind of patterns they have implemented. Could someone point me to a reliable source (if any) about the software patterns used?

Thanks in advance!

[smsmith]

I think you may be referring to this:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... ding_Style

[tanstaafl]

If you are asking about "Gang of Four" (GOF) type design patterns I doubt that is explicitly documented. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... ode_online , https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add ... _interface , https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Ba ... or_Newbies and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... structions . Since a lot of Thunderbird's features are not built-in and are provided by add-ons (there are hundreds of them) I suggest you browse the documentation on how to develop an add-on at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Thunderbird and consider including the Lightning, Enigmail, and Thunderbird Conversations add-ons as part of what you are studying. They're pretty big/complex add-ons.

You should also look at SkinkGlue as that code to add new account types is being emerged into Thunderbird according to the current roadmap for the next major release.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Other_sources ... nformation