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Name: Abstract Factory Design Pattern
ID: m17203
Language: English (en)
Summary: Explains the Factory Design Pattern, a pattern in object-oriented programming whereby a factory is responsible for creating instances of a given class of objects.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: design, design pattern, factory, factory pattern, object-oriented programming, oop
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: Stephen Wong (swong@rice.edu), Antonio Garcia Castañeda (antoniog@gmail.com)
Copyright Holders: Stephen Wong (swong@rice.edu)
Maintainers: Stephen Wong (swong@rice.edu), Alex Tribble (prat@rice.edu), Dung Nguyen (dxnguyen@rice.edu)
Latest version: 1.3 (history)
First publication date: Jul 8, 2008 7:56 pm GMT-5
Last revision to module: Jul 2, 2009 1:41 pm GMT-5

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Version: 1.3 Jul 2, 2009 1:41 pm GMT-5 by Stephen Wong
Changes: 
Added Antonio as author
Version: 1.2 Jul 24, 2008 8:36 pm GMT-5 by Alex Tribble
Changes: 
Applied appropriate roles.
Version: 1.1 Jul 8, 2008 9:06 pm GMT-5 by Alex Tribble
Changes: 
Initial revision.

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