Design Patterns II - Adapter

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Author: Jiangong SUN

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There are 4 categories of design patterns called Gang of Four(GoF):

- Creational patterns

- Structural patterns

- Behavior patterns

- Concurrency patterns

Adapter pattern is a structural pattern.

Adapter pattern definition: Convert the interface of a class into another interface clients expect. An adapter lets classes work together that could not otherwise because of incompatible interfaces. The enterprise integration pattern equivalent is the translator.

UML:

For example, there are 2 targets that 2 different clients expects.

reference:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/342082/Understanding-and-Implementing-the-Adapter-Pattern

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_pattern_%28computer_science%29#Classification_and_list

http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/PatternAdapter.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1673841/examples-of-gof-design-patterns

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/orm-9780596527730-01-04.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1299167/understanding-adapter-pattern