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| pattern | Abstract Factory | abstract-factory | /patterns/abstract-factory/ | Creational |
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Also known as
Kit
Intent
Provide an interface for creating families of related or dependent objects without specifying their concrete classes.
Applicability
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