Abstract Factory

Name : Abstract Factory
Context : Creating Related family of objects
Example: Toolkit(awt)

java.sql.Connection (sort of creates Statements and PreparedStatements and CallableStatements where each is specific to the database)
Consequence
1) Exchange Product Families
2) Supporting new kinds of products
3) Factories are normally singletons! But they need not be.

4)Note that every factory must support every type of object to be created. This is sometimes problematic.