The dynamic factory pattern

  • Authors:
  • León Welicki;Joseph W. Yoder;Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

  • Affiliations:
  • ONO (Cableuropa S.A.), Madrid, Spain;The Refactory, Inc., Urbana, Illinois;Wirfs-Brock Associates, Sherwood, Oregon

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The Dynamic Factory pattern describes a factory that can create product instances based on concrete type definitions stored as external metadata. This facilitates adding new products to a system without having to modify code in the factory class.