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This is part two of my talk, Design Patterns in the 21st Century. This pattern is used everywhere in Java code, especially in more “enterprisey” code bases. It involves an interface and an implementation. The interface looks something like this: public interface Bakery { Pastry bakePastry(Topping topping); Cake bakeCake(); } And the implementation: public class ...