Design Patterns for Object-Oriented Software Development

By: W. Pree
Published in: Addison-Wesley, 1994

Summary: Introduces "meta patterns," which describe patterns at a high level of abstraction.

Pattern: Hook Method

Provides default behavior that subclasses can extend. Often the hook method does nothing. Hook methods are abstract methods, regular methods, or template methods.

Category: Behavioral

• Template Method [Gamma+95] often uses hook methods.