What is Prototype Design Pattern

The prototype pattern is a creational design pattern. It is used when the type of objects to create is determined by a prototypical instance, which is cloned to produce new objects.

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When to use Prototype Design Pattern

Prototype design pattern is used in scenarios where application needs to create a number of instances of a class, which has almost same state and when there is need to avoid creating objects using new keyword.

Learn Design Patterns with Java by Aseem Jain

This repository contains working project code used in video Course by Packt Publication with title "Learn Design Patterns with Java " authored by "Aseem Jain".

Course link:

https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/learn-design-patterns-java-9-video

Profile: http://in.linkedin.com/in/premaseem

Authors blog on design patterns:

https://premaseem.wordpress.com/category/computers/design-patterns/

Software Design pattern community face book page:

https://www.facebook.com/DesignPatternGuru/

Note:

• This code base will work on Java 9 and above versions.
• diagrams folders carry UML diagrams.
• pattern folder has code of primary example.
• patternBonus folder has code of secondary or bonus example.