Apex Design Patterns

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed how to deal with various situations while instantiating objects using design patterns, such as the factory method, abstract factory method, singleton, builder, and prototype pattern.

The following table shows a summary of the design patterns discussed in this chapter:

Design patterns	Summary
The factory method pattern	This creates objects of the same family of classes.
The abstract factory pattern	This creates a single object consisting of objects of different factories to represent a related product.
The singleton pattern	This restricts to a single instance of a class.
The builder pattern	This hides the complexity and sequence to initialize a complex object.
The prototype ...