Design patterns have evolved to solve problems often encountered in software applications. The factory method design pattern and the abstract factory design pattern are both creational patterns.

public interface Trace { // turn on and off debugging public void setDebug( boolean debug ); // write out a debug message public void debug( String message ...

When President Barack Obama declared historic Pullman a national monument in February, the focus was on the past: the company town of railroad carmaker George Pullman, the violent labor strike of 1894 ...

Yesterday, the leadership of the soap and cleaning supply manufacturers Method and Ecover officially opened the doors to their brand new $30 million plant on the far South Side. The opening of the new ...

Method’s state-of-the-art soap factory on the Far South Side celebrated its opening Tuesday and offers glimpses into the future of Chicago’s economy. As corporations increasingly calculate that wind ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Method's Soapbox is the first LEED Platinum certified factory in the industry. Okay, great, but what does that even mean? Short answer, the factory is ...