Factory Patterns

[Vijay Narayanan]

Though the Abstracte factory pattern seems to be very generic, when would one use it anyway. The normal Factory pattern seems fine... comments plz

[timothy zimmerman]

I am fairly new to this and was given this link as a source of information. Here is a link to the explanation of Abstract Factory Pattern, http://myweb.onramp.net/~huston/dp/factory.html hope it helps.