Abstract Factory Pattern

Kind: pattern

Layer: Design Patterns Core

Record: architecture:abstract-factory-pattern

Severity: contextual

Scope: product family, component

Canonical: Ontology

A design pattern that creates a whole family of related objects through one interface, so the members always match.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Factory Method Pattern and before Builder Pattern.

Requires

• Related Product Variants

Reinforces

• Interchangeability

Enables

• Family-Level Replacement

Conflicts with

• Mixed Product Families

In tension with

• Boilerplate

Tensions

• Abstract Factory Pattern / Boilerplate

Violated by

• Mixed Product Families

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Creational Patterns

Linked from

• Core Modular Design
• Core Vocabulary
• Creational Patterns
• Severity levels
• The resolutions