abstract factory

Author: selonj

creational-patterns/abstract-factory/README.md

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+# Abstract Factory
+
+
+## Intent
+Provide an interface for creating families of related or dependent objects without specifying their concrete classes.
+
+![Abstract Factory](etc/abstract-factory.png)
+
+## Applicability
+
+- a system should be independent of how its product created, composed and presented.
+- a system should be configured one of multiple families of products.
+- a families 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.
+

creational-patterns/abstract-factory/etc/abstract-factory.png

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 rootProject.name = 'java-design-patterns'
+def designPatterns = [
+        'creational-patterns': [
+                'abstract-factory'
+        ]
+];
 
+designPatterns.each { catalog, patterns ->
+    include ":$catalog"
+    include(patterns.collect { ":$catalog:$it" } as String[])
+}