Design patterns have evolved to solve problems often encountered in software applications. The factory method design pattern and the abstract factory design pattern are both creational patterns ...

In the Second Edition of Effective Java, Josh Bloch introduces use of the builder pattern in Item #2 for dealing with constructors that require too many parameters.

The first design pattern I ever used was the Factory Method pattern. By adopting that pattern, I moved the code for creating my objects out of my constructors and into a separate method. That ...