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---
layout: pattern
title: Servant
folder: servant
permalink: /patterns/servant/
categories: Structural
2015-12-28 15:52:44 +02:00
tags:
- Java
- Difficulty-Beginner
---
**Intent:** Servant is used for providing some behavior to a group of classes.
Instead of defining that behavior in each class - or when we cannot factor out
this behavior in the common parent class - it is defined once in the Servant.
![alt text](./etc/servant-pattern.png "Servant")
**Applicability:** Use the Servant pattern when
* when we want some objects to perform a common action and don't want to define this action as a method in every class.