Factory Methods

[santhoshK babu]

Can Any one Explain me the question below..

Thanks in Advance

What is factory methods? When it is appropriate to use?

Why should we go for factory method?

[hemadri raju]

whenever we want to have some control over the number of objects to be created for a class.

in such cases we create a private constructor, and static method in that class. and we call the private constructor from that static method. we can have count of objects created for that class using a static variable.

[sentil kumar]

Pattern p = Patten.compile("\\d");
Pattern p = Patten.compile("[a-s]");
here the patten object is created by the Pattern class, based on the given input..

this is example for factory pattern

[Carlos G�mez]

also:

DateFormat.getDateInstance()
NumberFormat.getInstance()
NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance()
NumberFormat.getPercentInstance()
Calendar.getInstance()

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