Java Design Patterns

Java Design Patterns

Each of the 23 design patterns in Design Patterns is discussed in the
chapters that follow, along with at least one working program example for
that pattern. The authors of Design Patterns have suggested that every
pattern start with an abstract class and that you derive concrete working
classes from that abstraction. We have only followed that suggestion in cases
where there may be several examples of a pattern within a program. In other
cases, we start right in with a concrete class, since the abstract class only
makes the explanation more involved and adds little to the elegance of the
implementation.