Re: Is it a facade


Sanjay skrev:

> Was curious to know if I can *only* call a pattern which gives client
> an abstraction of the subsystems in a single call, a facade or could
> it be possible that a ModuleManager class that provides many API's to
> clients to finally build a Module entity also as Facade.

Remember that we use patterns as communicative short-cut. A Facade is
the popular term given to a particular solution to a particular
problem. The GoF book is sufficiently well-read that when you say,
"Facade," to an OO programmer, he'll probably know that you're talking
about the Facade from GoF, and therefore know that you're trying to
encapsulate a subsystem behind a small number of interfaces.

You can call such subsystem encapsulation anything you like. You can
call it, "ModuleManager." You can call it, "The ominous, freezing,
Plutonic wasteland." But programmers won't know what you're talking
about, and you'll find yourself explaining your design, over-and-over
again, to audiences that will all give rougly the same response:

"Oh, you mean it's a Facade."

..ed

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