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Class hierarchies are a fundamental feature of object-oriented programming languages. Chapter 3 examined their capabilities. This chapter examines their (often significant) limitations and introduces the more flexible concept of a strategy hierarchy. Strategy hierarchies are a central component of several design techniques. This chapter examines two such techniques—the strategy pattern and the command pattern—and their uses.
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Sciore, E. (2019). Strategies. In: Java Program Design. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4143-1_4
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