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The facade design pattern hides the complexities of a system by providing a simplified interface. It involves creating a facade class that references complex subsystem classes and exposes their key functionality through simpler methods. For example, an AnimalMaker facade class is created that holds references to Dog, Cat, and Bird classes. It exposes species methods that call the corresponding methods in the concrete classes, hiding the instantiation of the real classes from the user. The facade pattern is useful for simplifying access to a complex system.

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The facade design pattern hides the complexities of a system by providing a simplified interface. It involves creating a facade class that references complex subsystem classes and exposes their key functionality through simpler methods. For example, an AnimalMaker facade class is created that holds references to Dog, Cat, and Bird classes. It exposes species methods that call the corresponding methods in the concrete classes, hiding the instantiation of the real classes from the user. The facade pattern is useful for simplifying access to a complex system.

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8/31/2021 Facade Design Pattern - Dev Genius

Facade Design Pattern


Daniel Liu Follow

Nov 11, 2020 · 2 min read

Overview
The main idea for the facade design is hiding the complexities of the application. The
user would use an interface/facade instead to access any methods.

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Implementation
Interface

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// Animal.java

public interface Animal {

void species();

Interface for concrete class.

Class Implementation

// Dog.java

public class Dog implements Animal {

@Override

public void species() {

System.out.println("Dog");

Interface implementations.

// Cat.java

public class Cat implements Animal {

@Override

public void species() {

System.out.println("Cat");

// Bird.java

public class Bird implements Animal {

@Override

public void species() {

System.out.println("Bird");

Facade

// AnimalMaker.java

public class AnimalMaker {

private Animal dog;

private Animal cat;

private Animal bird;

public AnimalMaker() {

dog = new Dog();

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cat = new Cat();

bird = new Bird();

public void dogSpecies(){

dog.species();

public void catSpecies(){

cat.species();

public void birdSpecies(){

bird.species();

Facade for user to access concrete class methods.

Demo

// Demo.java

public class Demo {

public static void main(String[] args) {

AnimalMaker animalMaker = new AnimalMaker();

animalMaker.dogSpecies();

animalMaker.catSpecies();

animalMaker.birdSpecies();

>> Dog

>> Cat

>> Bird

Instead of creating concrete classes you would call their methods through the facade.

Conclusion
You would probably use the facade pattern if you had a complex system. You would
want to hide the complexities and expose a simplified way for others to use.

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