Head First Design Patterns

Chapter 6. The Command Pattern: Encapsulating Invocation

In this chapter, we take encapsulation to a whole new level: we’re going to encapsulate method invocation. That’s right; by encapsulating method invocation, we can crystallize pieces of computation so that the object invoking the computation doesn’t need to worry about how to do things, it just uses our crystallized method to get it done. We can also do some wickedly smart things with these encapsulated method invocations, like save them away for logging or reuse them to implement undo in our code.

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