Introduction

Overview

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Learning Objectives

• State the purpose and use of design patterns

• Explain why design patterns are a form of knowledge reuse

• Describe the purpose of the Factory pattern

• Describe how to create a factory class that loads other classes by class name

• Describe the purpose of the Singleton pattern

• Describe the purpose of the Command pattern

• Describe the purpose of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern

• Describe how to dynamically load a class into the JVM by name using the Class.forName() method

• Combine the MVC, Factory, Singleton, and Command patterns to formulate flexible application architectures

• Demonstrate your ability to utilize design patterns in your programs