A Gang of Four structural design pattern that separates an abstraction from its implementation so the two can vary and evolve independently, avoiding a combinatorial explosion of subclasses when both an abstraction and its implementation have several variants.
Facts
Core PrincipleDecouples an abstraction from its implementation so the two can vary independently, splitting a class hierarchy into an abstraction side and an implementation side connected at runtime. 2 Connections
Associated With
Erich Gamma, Pioneers Erich Gamma co-authored the 1994 Design Patterns book that named and catalogued the Bridge pattern among the original 23.
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1. Wikipedia: Design Patterns (book)
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (1994) is a software engineering book describing software design patterns.
2. Wikipedia: Bridge Pattern
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The bridge pattern is a design pattern used in software engineering that is meant to "decouple an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently", introduced by the Gang of Four.
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