The adapter pattern, as the name suggests, is the pattern for a class that adapts the interface of another considerably complicated or inconsistent class. It's basically just a wrapper class. It wraps the interface of another class to an interface that is simpler, consistent to the software design, and is what the client is expecting.
The following diagram shows the adapter pattern in general and the one used for our example:
It is one of the simplest GoF design patterns with the purpose of simplifying the interface.
In the example scenario, we have an Oracle database hypothetical DB driver class with a complex and inconsistent ...
