The Composite design pattern

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Abstract classes, Interfaces, and Patterns - slide 20 : 37

The Composite design pattern

Design patterns

A Composite design pattern composes objects into tree structures.

Clients operate uniformly on leaves and composite nodes

The tree structure may be non-mutable and built via constructors

Alternatively, the tree structure may be mutable, and built via Add and Remove operations