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Spring 5 Design Patterns
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Spring 5 Design Patterns

by Dinesh Rajput
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
396 pages
10h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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Prototype design pattern

Specify the kind of objects to create using a prototypical instance, and create new objects by copying this prototype. - GOF Design Patterns

The Prototype pattern comes under the creational design pattern family of GOF patterns in software development. This pattern is used to create the objects by using a clone method of objects. It is determined by a prototypical instance. In the enterprise application, object creation is costly in terms of creating and initializing the initial properties of objects. If such a type of object is already in your hand, then you go for the prototype pattern; you just copy an existing similar object instead of creating it, which is time-consuming.

This pattern involves implementing a ...

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