Help for Factory Design pattern

[sunil antil]

Hi All

Can any one tell what is the meaning of the following line

The lifetime management of the generated objects must be centralised to ensure a consistent behaviour within the application

in context with factory method desgin pattern.

Thanks!

S.E Sunil Kumar

[Mohamed Sanaulla]

I think this query is similar to previous query you had posted.
Please continue in the previous thread if its same.

[sunil antil]

Hi Mohamed Sir

Its ok querry may be similar but I did not get answer of both of my querry. I will say thanks we some one sort out me from this problem.


Thanks

[Matthew Brown]

It's difficult to tell exactly what was meant by a single quote with no context. But here's what I think it's getting at.

The clients that get objects from the factory cannot be responsible for managing the object's lifetime. Let's say that there's a cleanup method that needs to be called when the object is taken out of service. The client can't be responsible for this because it has no way of knowing whether the object is being shared with other clases, or whether it will be used again in the future. All this depends on what strategies the factory is using, and one point of the factory pattern is that clients don't need to know this.

So where can this "lifetime management" take place? It needs to be centralised somehow, probably in the factory itself.

(Here by "client" I just mean any classes that use the factory).

Does that help?