Design patterns have evolved to solve problems often encountered in software applications. The factory method design pattern and the abstract factory design pattern are both creational patterns ...

In essence, the Abstract Factory design pattern is used to create a factory of factories. In the Abstract Factory design pattern, the consumer invokes the Factory methods to create the objects.

This article discusses the strength and weakness of applying Dependency Injection (DI) with a variant of Abstract Factory design pattern. This approach is especially suitable for such scenarios as ...

The first design pattern I ever used was the Factory Method pattern. By adopting that pattern, I moved the code for creating my objects out of my constructors and into a separate method. That ...