Can you give examples of common design patterns in software systems?

Common design patterns help create flexible, maintainable, and extendable systems. Here are some examples:

• Singleton — ensures a class has only one instance and provides a global point of access to it.
• Factory Method — defines an interface for creating an object but allows subclasses to alter the type of objects that will be created.
• Observer — allows objects to subscribe to events of another object and receive notifications of changes.
• Decorator — dynamically adds responsibilities to objects by wrapping them.
• Strategy — defines a family of algorithms, encapsulates each one, and makes them interchangeable.

Example of the Singleton pattern in Java:

public class Singleton {
    private static Singleton instance;

    private Singleton() {}

    public static synchronized Singleton getInstance() {
        if (instance == null) {
            instance = new Singleton();
        }
        return instance;
    }
}