Abstract Factory Design Pattern

UML Class Diagram Example

Abstract Factory is creational software design pattern. This pattern provides interfaces for creating families of related or dependent objects without specifying their concrete classes.

Client software creates a concrete implementation of the abstract factory and then uses the generic interfaces to create the concrete objects that are part of the family of objects. The client does not know or care which concrete objects it gets from each of these concrete factories since it uses only the generic interfaces of their products.

Use of this pattern makes it possible to interchange families of concrete classes without changing the code that uses them. It separates details of implementation of a set of objects from their usage.

UML class diagram example for the Abstract Factory Design Pattern.