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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
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 2.0)
Authors: Stephen Wong (swong@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: Stephen Wong (swong@rice.edu)
Maintainers: Alex Tribble (prat@rice.edu), Stephen Wong (swong@rice.edu), Dung Nguyen (dxnguyen@rice.edu)
Version: 1.2 (history)
Created: Jul 8, 2008 7:56 pm GMT-5
Revised: Jul 24, 2008 8:36 pm GMT-5

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Version: 1.2 Jul 24, 2008 8:36 pm GMT-5 by Alex Tribble
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Version: 1.1 Jul 8, 2008 9:06 pm GMT-5 by Alex Tribble
Changes: 
Initial revision.

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