By egenesky
via architects.dzone.com
Published: Nov 20 2012 / 08:18
Recommendation: This is still a useful pattern for a limited number of scenarios. In particular, the ability to hand out a copy of the instance from a cache means that we don’t have to worry about multi threading.
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Steve Mcduff replied ago:
Prototypes are useful to create "templates" presented in user interfaces. In your example, the UI might offer a DVD template or a book template populated with convenient default values. When users want to create new DVDs, they copy/paste the template and evolve their new copy. From a code perspective, a call to the clone method makes the copy/paste simple.
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