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Welcome to the Creational Design Patterns in Java Course!

In this course, we will discuss creational design patterns in Java. We will begin with the concept of design patterns and their different types. We will then closely look into the Creational design patterns. We will talk about Singleton, Factory, Builder, Prototype and Abstract Factory design patterns. Each design pattern is discussed with real-life examples and demonstrated with live coding.

For the Singleton design pattern, we've demonstrated various implementations and discussed the merit and demerits of the approaches. We've also discussed how to protect the Singleton pattern from Reflection, Serialization, and Cloning exploitation.

We've also included quizzes and coding exercises for you to solidify your understanding of the patterns. For instance, in the course, we've included two coding exercises - one to implement Factory design pattern, and another to implement Builder design pattern. These coding exercises are designed with real-world examples. The solutions use Java 8 and provide several best practices and techniques.

This course intends to provide you with a solid foundation about creational design patterns and after successfully completing the course you should be able to use these design patterns in your applications. Once you finish this course, we encourage you to go through other design pattern types - Structural and Behavioural.

See you in the course!