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

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14. Bridge Pattern

Vaskaran Sarcar¹  

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Garia, Kolkata, India

 

This chapter covers the Bridge pattern. You’ll see two different implementations.

GoF Definition

It decouples an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently.

Concept

This pattern is also known as the Handle/Body pattern. Using it, you decouple an implementation class from an abstract class by providing a bridge between them.

This bridge interface makes the functionality of concrete classes independent from the interface implementer classes. You can alter different kinds of classes structurally without ...