Ilkka Seppälä 9ec0935a1c Merge pull request #532 from leogtzr/master
Adding initialization-on-demand idiom and noninstantiable class instead of interface constant idiom
2017-01-23 08:21:07 +02:00
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pattern Servant servant /patterns/servant/ DSkn4O0m20NGLNG0G-ys63cDbv0SV7HzRUnUy-QYkSOkONKwWU4haV6JZe8pjd2nt1MYIBatAZKU1XjTVFEoYvT3by60c3erzW_qdPiL9CY_KrXB8rfz0G00 Structural
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.

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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.

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