Re: Understanding Abstract Factory Pattern

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I almost understand that.

Are there any tutorials you know of that illustrate this concept?

Thanks,
Ron


"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On May 15, 1:21 pm, "RSH" <way_beyond_o...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am a fairly seasoned developer and have recently started looking at
software design patterns. I am starting with the Abstract Factory
Pattern
and was wondering if someone could help me understand where I might use
this
Pattern. I get the general concept but I am having a hard time
converting
that concept into where I might use that in a real world scenerio for a
business application or web development project.

Suppose you had encapsulated your data access into an interface, and
had implemented that interface for Oracle, SQL Server etc.

The abstract factory pattern would give you a central factory to call
which would in turn call the appropriate concrete factory depending on
configuration.

At least, that's the way I understand it.

Jon



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