Re: Should I use a Factory Design pattern ?

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From: Simon Guertin
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:17

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Mark Guerrieri wrote:
>>I never used the factory design pattern and I would like to know if this
>>is an appropriate situation to use it and how should I design my License 
>>key classes and subclasses?
> 
> 
> Sounds to me more like a straight forward OOP design would suffice. 
> Abstract license key base class defines virtual methods for all fetaures, or 
> even just a couple of virtual methods such as EnableFeatures, 
> DisableFeatures, GetAvailableFeatures, etc.  Create dervied classes that 
> override the appropriate functions, and pass that into a generic method that 
> will call the appropriate functions via polymorphism.
> 
> Mark 
> 
> 

Thanks!

Simon

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