posted 19 years ago
The adaptor and bridge patterns are very similar. The main difference between an adaptor and a bridge pattern, is that a bridge pattern serves to decouple an abstraction class from its implementation, and an adaptor pattern converts the interface between classes with less inheritance.
The only similarity may be that they both mask the underlying
implementation.In bridge the clients of the class see the same interface, where as in adaptor the adaptor interface is used to mask another one.