What is the difference between an ‘Abstraction’ and a ‘Facade’?
Is there a difference at all? Or are the terms interchangeable?
What is the difference between an ‘Abstraction’ and a ‘Facade’? Is there a difference
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What is the difference between an ‘Abstraction’ and a ‘Facade’?
Is there a difference at all? Or are the terms interchangeable?
The facade pattern is an simplified interface to a larger, possibly more complex code base. The code base may be a single class, or more. The facade just gives you a simple interface to it.
Abstraction, is used to represent a concept, but not to be bound to any specific instance. (Ie: An abstract class). This doesn’t imply simplifying (like the facade pattern does), but rather making a ‘common’ interface or representation.