Refactoring to Facade
A facade provides an interface, but it does not use a Java interface. Rather, a facade is a class with methods that make it easy to use the classes in a subsystem.
Consider an example from the early days at Oozinoz, when there were not yet standards for GUI development. Suppose that you come across an application that a developer has created to show the flight path of an unexploded shell. Figure 4.1 shows this class. As before, the underscore in the name of the FlightPanel_1 class is a hint that this class, from com.oozinoz.applications, needs refactoring.
Figure 4.1. The FlightPanel_1 class displays the flight path of an unexploded shell.
Aerial shells are designed to explode high in the sky, with spectacular results. But ...
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