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Java Design Patterns: A Hands-On Experience with Real-World Examples
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Java Design Patterns: A Hands-On Experience with Real-World Examples

by Vaskaran Sarcar
December 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
512 pages
8h 51m
English
Apress
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Vaskaran SarcarJava Design Patternshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4078-6_10

10. Flyweight Pattern

Vaskaran Sarcar1 
(1)
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 

This chapter covers the flyweight pattern.

GoF Definition

Use sharing to support large numbers of fine-grained objects efficiently.

Concept

In their famous book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley, 1995), the Gang of Four (GoF) wrote about flyweights as follows:

A flyweight is a shared object that can be used in multiple contexts simultaneously. The flyweight acts as an independent object in each context—it’s indistinguishable from an instance of the object that’s not shared. Flyweights cannot make assumptions about the context in which ...

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