Indeed, it's never quite black and white. The author's obviously referring to the crazy trends in the Java community back when Design Patterns were the only gam

Indeed, it's never quite black and white. The author's obviously referring to the crazy trends in the Java community back when Design Patterns were the only game in town. I have myself worked on code built like this, it's usually very difficult to retrofit into a unit test. Hell, I've even written some AbstractSingletonFactories myself...