Spring 5 Design Patterns

Template Design Pattern

Define the skeleton of an algorithm in an operation, deferring some steps to subclasses. Template Method lets subclasses redefine certain steps of an algorithm without changing the algorithm's structure. 60; -GOF Design Patterns

In Template design pattern, an abstract class wraps some defined ways to its method. That method allows you to override parts of the method without rewriting it. You could use its concrete class to your application to perform similar type actions. This design pattern comes under the Behavior design pattern family of GOF pattern.

There are following lists the benefits of using the Template pattern:

• It reduces the boilerplate codes in the application by reusing code.
• This pattern creates a template ...