Late Creation--A Creational Pattern

Dirk Baeumer and Dirk Riehle

Dirk Riehle
UBILAB, Union Bank of Switzerland
Bahnhofstrasse 45, CH-8021 Zuerich
Switzerland

E-mail: riehle@ubilab.ubs.ch
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Intent

Let clients create objects by naming an abstract superclass
and by providing a specification. Late creation decouples the
client from the product easing the evolution and adaptation
of class hierarchies.