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.
    }
}

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。

:D

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。

抽象工厂是创建相关对象的接口，而工厂方法是一种方法。抽象工厂采用工厂方法实现。

抽象工厂模式

Provide an interface for creating families of related or dependent objects without specifying their concrete classes. The Abstract Factory pattern is very similar to the Factory Method pattern. One difference between the two is that with the Abstract Factory pattern, a class delegates the responsibility of object instantiation to another object via composition whereas the Factory Method pattern uses inheritance and relies on a subclass to handle the desired object instantiation. Actually, the delegated object frequently uses factory methods to perform the instantiation!

工厂模式

工厂模式就是这样的例子 创建型模式 创建模式抽象了 对象实例化过程。他们 隐藏对象是如何创建和帮助的 使整个系统相互独立 它的对象是如何创建的 组成。 类创建模式的重点 使用继承来决定 对象进行实例化 工厂方法 对象创建模式所关注的 实例化的委托 到另一个对象 抽象工厂

参考: 工厂vs抽象工厂

工厂模式: 工厂生产iproduct实现

工厂模式: 一个工厂-工厂生产IFactories, IFactories反过来生产IProducts:)

[根据评论更新] 我之前写的至少在维基百科上是不正确的。抽象工厂就是一个简单的工厂接口。有了它，您可以在运行时切换工厂，以允许在不同的上下文中使用不同的工厂。例如针对不同操作系统的不同工厂、SQL提供者、中间件驱动程序等等。