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* [Intercepting Filter](#intercepting-filter)
+## Intercepting Filter [↑](#list-of-design-patterns)
+**Intent:** Provide an interfa
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+**Applicability:** Use the Intercepting Filter pattern when
+* Used when system uses pre-processing or post-processing requests
+* a family of related product objects is designed to be used together, and you need to enforce this constraint
+* you want to provide a class library of products, and you want to reveal just their interfaces, not their implementations
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+**Real world examples:**
+* [javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/javax/xml/parsers/DocumentBuilderFactory.html)
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## Abstract Factory [↑](#list-of-design-patterns)
**Intent:** Provide an interface for creating families of related or dependent objects without specifying their concrete classes.