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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Summary
The Factory Method pattern is one of the straightforward patterns that you will use again and again. It is used in those cases where you want to defer the rules about instantiating an object to some derived class. In such cases, it is most natural to put the implementation of the method in the object that is responsible for that behavior.