Design patterns have evolved to solve problems often encountered in software applications. The factory method design pattern and the abstract factory design pattern are both creational patterns.

When President Barack Obama declared historic Pullman a national monument in February, the focus was on the past: the company town of railroad carmaker George Pullman, the violent labor strike of 1894 ...

This article discusses the strength and weakness of applying Dependency Injection (DI) with a variant of Abstract Factory design pattern. This approach is especially suitable for such scenarios as ...

Yesterday, the leadership of the soap and cleaning supply manufacturers Method and Ecover officially opened the doors to their brand new $30 million plant on the far South Side. The opening of the new ...

Method’s state-of-the-art soap factory on the Far South Side celebrated its opening Tuesday and offers glimpses into the future of Chicago’s economy. As corporations increasingly calculate that wind ...

Barring further delays, Java 9 will reach general availability status on July 27. Its module system and Java Shell Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) tool are receiving considerable attention, but Java 9 ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Method's Soapbox is the first LEED Platinum certified factory in the industry. Okay, great, but what does that even mean? Short answer, the factory is ...

Method Soap recently launched a new brand campaign, “There’s Good Inside,” to celebrate the environmental and community-related benefits of its LEED-Platinum certified Chicago factory, nicknamed "the ...

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