It outlines 23 design patterns, which are broken down into three categories: Creational, Structural, and Behavioral patterns. We will also discuss some miscellaneous design patterns in this series.

As most readers will know, Design Patterns presents 23 software design patterns that fit into the categories discussed in Part 1: Creational, structural, and behavioral. Design patterns on JavaWorld ...

Although factory and abstract factory design patterns are creational design patterns, the former uses inheritance and depends on subclasses to create instances of classes.