tl;dr A Wrapper Facade, documented in Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Vol 2, describes how to build a Facade-like entity around lower-level OS APIs. The authors of the Wrapper Facade felt that it differed significantly enough from Facade because ...

Problem

Context

Solution

Some questions arise out of this:

Implementations

Consequences

Wrapper Facade tends to lead to several consequences:

Relationships

Variations

A couple of different takes on Wrapper Facade include:

Last updated: 10 March 2022

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