July 2001
Beginner to intermediate
368 pages
6h 52m
English
book
Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design
by Alan Shalloway, James R. Trott
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Relating the Abstract Factory Pattern to the CAD/CAM Problem
In the CAD/CAM problem, the system will have to deal with many sets of features, depending upon which CAD/CAM version it is working with. In the V1 system, all of the features will be implemented for V1. Similarly, in the V2 system, all of the features will be implemented for V2.
The families that I will use for the Abstract Factory pattern will be V1 Features and V2 Features.