Design Patterns III : Strategy

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Author: Jiangong SUN

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Strategy pattern principle is create a interface strategy with methods definitions. The concrete strategies will implement the interface. And context will use interface strategy. With different strategy contexts, different strategies will be called.

UML:

Implementation:

There is an interface who is the strategy, it defines a method signature. 

Two concrete class implement it and its method.

In a context class, it uses interface strategy as its parameter in its constrcutor. Its execute strategy method will call the interface strategy method.

Usage of strategy:

reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_pattern

http://newguid.net/vs2008-vs2010/2010/design-patternsc-basic-example-strategy-pattern/

http://developer.51cto.com/art/201202/318911.htm