Design Patterns discussion

["mgrand AT mindspring.com" <mgrand AT mindspring.com>]

Factory Method is about deciding which class to instantiate.  Abstract
factory is about ensuring that that classes that you are instantiate are a
matched set.  Abstract factory may use factory method to decide which set
of classes it will instantiate.

Original Message:
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From: Jacob George 
jacobg AT atinav.com
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:29:59 +0530
To: 
gang-of-4-patterns AT cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: [gang-of-4-patterns] Doubt on creational patterns..


Hi,
    I am new to this group and is presently trying to understand creational
patterns. I got confused by the "Factory method" pattern and "Abstract
Factory" pattern. Both are used for instantiating objects, right? But one
is class creational while other is object creational; this point I doesn't
understand clearly.



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