Common Problem

A commonly found problem. (That was difficult, wasn't it?)

A CommonProblem often masquerades as an AntiPattern, I believe.

The giveaway is that in a CommonProblem the bad situation is described as the problem, in a true AntiPattern it is described as the supposed solution

-- StephenHutchinson

I would appreciate further expansion on this because I currently can see little of value in this page. Can you give some examples?

I see some so-called AntiPatterns where the description is just a problem statement, and when I try to reformulate the description into the AntiPatternTemplate I'm really struggling, because they just don't seem to fit. For example:

-- StephenHutchinson

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