Java Design Patterns

CHAPTER 17

Abstract Factory Patterns

GoF Definition: Provides an interface for creating families of related or dependent objects without specifying their concrete classes.

Concept

In this pattern, we provide an encapsulation mechanism to a group of individual factories. These factories have a theme in common. In this process, an interface is used to create related objects. Here we do not call their implementer or concrete classes directly. We sometimes refer to this pattern as a factory of factories or a Super factory.

With this pattern, we can interchange the specific implementations without changing the user’s code. But to achieve this, we need ...