4 Facade
A GREAT ADVANTAGE OF OO programming is that it helps keep applications from becoming monolithic programs with hopelessly tangled pieces. In an OO system, an application is, ideally, a minimal class that knits together the behaviors from reusable toolkits of other classes. A toolkit or subsystem developer often creates packages of well-designed classes without providing any applications that tie these classes together. The packages in Java’s class libraries are generally like this; they are toolkits from which you can weave an endless variety of domain-specific applications.
The reusability of toolkits comes with a problem: The diverse applicability of classes in an OO subsystem may offer an oppressive variety of options. A developer ...
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