P.3. Design Patterns in Packages java.awt and javax.swing
This section introduces those design patterns associated with Java GUI components. It should help you understand better how these components take advantage of design patterns and how developers integrate design patterns with Java GUI applications.
P.3.1. Creational Design Patterns
Now, we continue our treatment of creational design patterns, which provide ways to instantiate objects in a system.
Factory Method
Suppose that we are designing a system that opens an image from a specified file. Several different image formats exist, such as GIF and JPEG. We can use method createImage of class java.awt.Component to create an Image object. For example, to create a JPEG and GIF image in an ...
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