Sunday, October 11, 2015

Implementing the Factory pattern

The factory method uses factories for creating objects with no explicit need of identifying the exact class of object that will be created. Typically the factory pattern leverages the inheritance mechanism with the actual creation process delegated to subclasses. Factory is frequently used for avoiding duplication of code and for abstracting common functionalities. In this sense a superclass specifies generic behaviours by using pure virtual placeholders for creation steps. Then the superclass delegates the creation details to subclasses that are supplied by the client. 

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