Could someone explain the Factory Method Design Pattern

Hi Experts.
Could someone please explain for me the Factory Method Design Pattern. I read it a little and I understand that it is used in JDBC drivers but i'm not clear on it.
Could someone explain.
Thanks in advance
stephen

Basically, you have one class that's sole purpose is to create instances of a set of other classes.
What will usually happen is you have a set of related classes that inherit from some base class. We'll say for example that you have a base class CAR and it has sub-classes FORD, GM, HONDA (sorry Crylser). Instead of having the user call the constructors for FORD, GM, and HONDA, you can give the user a Factory Class that will give him a copy. We'll call our factory class Dealership. Inside dealership, you can have a static function :
public static Car makeCar(String type)
if(type.equals("FORD")
return new FORD();
else if(type.equals("GM")
return new GM();
else if(type.equals("HONDA")
return new HONDA();
So when the user needs a car, they will just call
Dealership.makeCar("FORD").
This is a good way to hide the implementation of your classes from the user, or if you require complex initialization of your objects.
Another good example of this is in the Swing library. To get a border around a component, you call static methods on BorderFactory.
Hope this helped.
Ed

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