Spring 5 Design Patterns

Decorator design pattern

Attach additional responsibilities to an object dynamically. Decorators provide a flexible alternative to sub classing for extending functionality. - GOF Design Pattern

In software engineering, the common intent of all GOF structural patterns is to simplify the complex relationship between objects and classes in a flexible enterprise application. The decorator pattern is a special type of design pattern among these that comes under the structural design pattern, which allows you to add and remove behaviors for an individual object at runtime dynamically or statically, without changing the existing behavior of other associated objects from the same class. This design pattern does this without violating the Single Responsibility ...