Linked Questions

I have been reading about design patterns and this got me curious: Decorator Pattern says wrap an original object and add additional features in the wrapper object. So structurally speaking - ...

Has anyone ever used the Bridge pattern in a real world application? If so, how did you use it? Is it me, or is it just the Adapter pattern with a little dependency injection thrown into the mix? Does ...

What is a wrapper class? How are such classes useful?

Can you give any good explanation what is the difference between Proxy and Decorator? The main difference I see is that when we assume that Proxy uses composition and Decorator uses aggregation then ...

What is the difference between the Bridge and Adapter patterns?

I am going over my design patterns, and one pattern I have yet to seriously use in my coding is the Decorator Pattern. I understand the pattern, but what I would love to know are some good concrete ...

What are the differences between proxy, wrapper or a façade classes They all seem to be the same to me, they take an implementation, encapsulate it and then methods are called on the wrapper/proxy/...

I feel like I've been using these pattern families quite many times, however, for me it's hard to see the differences as their definitions are quite similar. Basicaly it seems like all of them is ...

As I understood both Adapter and Proxy patterns make two distinct/different classes/objects compatible with each for communication. And both of them are Structural patterns. I am getting that both of ...

I was reading the implementation of method Collections.synchronizedList() and was confused whether its an example of decorator pattern or a proxy pattern?

I've got several C# classes each with similar properties. (They're part of an SDK and their code can’t be changed.) Person.Name Product.Name Order.Name I want to use these classes polymorphically, but ...

I have to access a legacy database that has "generic" tables in it and I do not have the authority to change it. Depending on the customer data that I'm working with, the relationships between the ...

I have little doubt about adapter class. I know what's the goal of adapter class. And when should be used. My doubt is about class construction. I've checked some tutorials and all of them say that I ...

There is an existing class from a third-party library I want to reuse, but it does not implement some of the required interfaces. I'm thinking of wrapping it inside a struct to fulfill the required ...

Suppose I have a class uicontrolWrapper, which is a wrapper for a uicontrol (but does not subclass it). The uicontrol stuff is kept in a private property for uicontrolWrapper. Basically, I want to be ...