The prototype pattern is a creational design pattern used in software development when the type of objects to create is determined by a prototypical ...
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That's the prototype pattern at work. It suggests that when you have a requirement for a product-class, instead of trying to create the object from scratch, ...
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15 Nov 2000 ... The prototype pattern is actually quite simple to implement in Java. .... use of ProtoType pattern and we need to clone the object. ...
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22 Mar 2002 ... The Prototype pattern is used when creating an instance of a class is very time-consuming or complex in some way.
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In manufacturing and design, a mockup, or mock-up, is a scale or full-size model of a design or device, used for teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion, and other purposes. A mockup is called a prototype if it provides at least part of the functionality of a system and enables testing of a design.
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