factory or abstract factory?

[Robin Zhang]

Home interface is using factory or abstract factory pattern for EJBObject? what pattern is using between Home interface and EJB beans?

[Mark Spritzler]

That would be the Factory Pattern.
abstract factory is more towards a bunch of classes being created. It can also produce different Factory classes form that one factory.
For instance a Factory of OS GUI Objectd. You pass the OS String and it returns a factory of GUI Objects for that OS.
Mark