Chapter 7. The Builder Pattern
In this chapter we'll consider how to use the Builder pattern to construct objects from components. We have already seen that the Factory Pattern returns one of several different subclasses, depending on the data passed in arguments to the creation methods. But suppose we don't want just a computing algorithm, but rather a whole different user interface, depending on the data we need to display. A typical example might be your e-mail address book. You probably have both people and groups of people in your address book, and you expect the display for the address book to change so that the People screen has places for first and last names, company name, e-mail address, and telephone number.
On the other hand, if you ...
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