Spring 5 Design Patterns

Abstract factory design pattern

Provide an interface for creating families of related or dependent objects without specifying their concrete classes. - GOF Design Patterns

The Abstract Factory pattern comes under the creational design pattern. It is a high-level design pattern compared to the factory method design pattern. According to this design pattern, you just define an interface or abstract class to create a related dependent object without specifying its concrete subclass. So here, the abstract factory returns a factory of classes. Let me simplify it for you. You have a set of factory method design patterns, and you just put these factories under a factory using the factory design pattern, which means that it is simply a factory of ...