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Java Design Patterns: Creational

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Overview

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Learn how to use the five most popular creational design patterns—Builder, Singleton, Prototype, Factory Method, and Abstract Factory—to write better Java code.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Improve code with creational design patterns
  • What you should know
1. Creational Design Patterns
  • What is a design pattern?
  • Creational design patterns
2. The Builder Pattern
  • Avoid complex constructors
  • Implement the Builder pattern
  • Implement a complete Builder pattern
  • Complex constructions
3. The Singleton Pattern
  • When to use the Singleton pattern
  • Implement the Singleton pattern
  • Multithreading with the Singleton pattern
  • Java's Collection class
4. The Prototype Pattern
  • Understand the Prototype pattern
  • Implement the Prototype pattern
  • Dealing with mutability
5. The Factory Method Pattern
  • Understand the Factory Method pattern
  • Implement a simple Factory Method pattern
  • Introduction to hierarchies
  • The complete Factory Method pattern
6. Abstract Factories
  • Understand the Abstract Factory pattern
  • Dealing with extensible factories
  • Implement the Abstract Factory pattern
  • Implement extensible factories
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Bethan Palmer

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