Design Patterns discussion

["Pablo Schor" <pablo.schor AT lobruno.com.ar>]

Mikal, the thing is Abstract Factory always relies on Factory Method or
Prototype, cannot be implemented by itself, and I suppose that's the reason
of the confusion. Is that right?

Thanks,

Pablo


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikal Ziane" 
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Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 3:04 PM
Subject: RE : [gang-of-4-patterns] Doubt on creational patterns..


>    Abstract Factory addreses (parallel) families of products. Think of a
> matrix of products. Columns are families and rows are product "kinds".
Cells
> are concrete products. Abtract Factory lets you choose the column first
and
> the forget about this choice and think in terms of rows instead of
concrete
> (family-dependent) products.
>    Abstract Factory may rely on Factory Method or Prototype.
>    As for the so-called "class" versus "object" scope I would not pay too
> much attention to it: it's a pretty vague concept.
>    Hope this helps.
>
>    Mikal
>
>
>
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