Breaking down the Abstract Factory pattern
As part of the creational family of design patterns, the Abstract Factory pattern is all about using a common interface to create families of related or dependent products without knowing the concrete classes of the products being created. You’ll find this pattern is most useful in scenarios where:
- You need a product creation system that’s decoupled from how the products are created or assembled.
- Your creation system can be configured with a variety of product families.
- You need to explicitly constrain a family of related products designed to work together.
- You need a collection of products but only want the system to know about their interfaces instead of detailed implementation.
A common use case for the Abstract Factory pattern would be a look-and-feel scenario or anything to do with multiple configurations that need to be managed. For example, if you were developing a game or application...
