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Difference between Adapter Pattern and Bridge pattern

 
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Hi,
Can anybody explain me exact differance between Adpater pattern and Bridge pattern.To me they both looks pretty much the same.
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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.
 
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I'm not sure I understand what similarity you see.

Bridge actually is a combination of Template Method and Strategy. http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2004/10/29/patterns.html is a nice article on those patterns.
 
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