From: Sam Kong <sam.s.kong@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T03:38:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this a kind of design patterns?


Peter Ertl wrote:
> my personal definition:
>
> factory method:
>   method, that creates a object,
>   because new(...) is not sufficient
>   in that case
>
> imho there's too much babbling about design patterns und too
> little pragmatism. who cares if it's pattern #1 or pattern #2.
>
> it's more a matter of good taste as a matter of applying rules.
>
> especially in java I have seen ridiculous numbers of classes doing
> trivial stuff using factories, abstract classes, interfaces, proxies,
> adapters, delegates and the like. it's often considered by so called
> architects to be good software if it uses several design pattern
> no matter what for...

You may be right.
However, knowing the right definition is important for communcation.
If somebody tells you to make a class using "X" pattern, you need to
understand what "X" pattern means.
The pattern names might have been arbitrarily made but now it's very
common almost like a standard.

Sam