工厂方法和抽象工厂都使客户端与具体类型解耦。两者都创建对象，但是工厂方法使用继承，而抽象工厂方法使用组合。

工厂方法在子类中继承，用于创建具体的对象(产品)，而抽象工厂提供了用于创建相关产品族的接口，这些接口的子类定义了如何创建相关产品。

然后这些子类在实例化后被传递到产品类中，在产品类中它被用作抽象类型。抽象工厂中的相关产品通常使用工厂方法来实现。

工厂方法:您有一个工厂，它创建派生自特定基类的对象

抽象工厂:你有一个创建其他工厂的工厂，这些工厂反过来创建从基类派生的对象。这样做是因为您通常不只是想创建单个对象(与Factory方法一样)—相反，您想创建相关对象的集合。

抽象工厂的示例/场景

I live in a place where it rains in the rainy season, snows in winter and hot and sunny in summers. I need different kind of clothes to protect myself from the elements. To do so I go to the store near my house and ask for clothing/items to protect myself. The store keeper gives me the appropriate item as per the environment and depth of my pocket. The items he gives me are of same level of quality and price range. Since he is aware of my standards its easy for him to do so. But when a rich guy from across the street comes up with the same requirements he gets an expensive, branded item. One noticeable thing is all the items he gives to me complement each other in term quality, standard and cost. One can say they go with each other. Same is the case with the items this rich guy gets.

所以通过上面的场景，我现在很欣赏店主的效率。我可以用抽象商店代替这个店主。我们得到的东西是抽象的东西，而我和富人是潜在的客户。我们所需要的只是符合我们需要的产品。

Now I can easily see myself considering an online store which provides a set of services to its numerous clients. Each client belongs to one of the three groups. When a premium group user opens up the site he gets great UI, highly customised advertisement pane, more options in the menus etc. These same set of features are presented to gold user but the functionality in the menu is less, advertisements are mostly relevent, and slightly less egronomic UI. Last is my kind of user, a ‘free group’ user. I am just served enough so that I do not get offended. The UI is a bare minimum, advertisements are way off track so much so that I do not know what comes in it, lastly the menu has only log out.

如果我有机会建立一个像这样的网站，我肯定会考虑抽象工厂模式。

产品:广告面板，菜单，用户界面画师。 摘要工厂:网络商店用户体验 Concreate Factory:高级用户体验，黄金用户体验，普通用户体验。

点击这里查看:http://www.allapplabs.com/java_design_patterns/abstract_factory_pattern.htm 似乎Factory方法使用一个特定的类(不是抽象类)作为基类，而抽象工厂则使用一个抽象类。此外，如果使用接口而不是抽象类，结果将是抽象工厂模式的不同实现。

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使用Factory模式，您可以生成特定接口(例如，IFruit)的实现实例(Apple、Banana、Cherry等)。

使用抽象工厂模式，您可以为任何人提供他们自己的工厂提供一种方法。这使得您的仓库可以是IFruitFactory或IJuiceFactory，而不需要您的仓库了解任何关于水果或果汁的信息。

延伸John Feminella的回答:

Apple, Banana, Cherry实现了FruitFactory，它有一个叫做Create的方法，它只负责创建Apple, Banana或Cherry。Factory方法就完成了。

现在，你想用你的水果创建一个特殊的沙拉，这就是你的抽象工厂。抽象工厂知道如何用苹果、香蕉和樱桃制作你的特殊沙拉。

public class Apple implements Fruit, FruitFactory {
    public Fruit Create() {
        // Apple creation logic goes here
    }
}

public class Banana implements Fruit, FruitFactory {
    public Fruit Create() {
        // Banana creation logic goes here
    }
}

public class Cherry implements Fruit, FruitFactory {
    public Fruit Create() {
        // Cherry creation logic goes here
    }
}

public class SpecialSalad implements Salad, SaladFactory {
    public static Salad Create(FruitFactory[] fruits) {
        // loop through the factory and create the fruits.
        // then you're ready to cut and slice your fruits 
        // to create your special salad.
    }
}