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Abstract Factory

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Creational

Java

Gang Of Four

Difficulty-Intermediate

Also known as

Kit

Intent

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

Use the Abstract Factory pattern when

a system should be independent of how its products are created, composed and represented
a system should be configured with one of multiple families of products
a family of related product objects is designed to be used together, and you need to enforce this constraint
you want to provide a class library of products, and you want to reveal just their interfaces, not their implementations