Editing Factory method pattern (section)

==Uses==
* In [[ADO.NET]], [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.data.idbcommand.createparameter?view=netframework-4.8 IDbCommand.CreateParameter] is an example of the use of factory method to connect parallel class hierarchies.
* In [[Qt (toolkit)|Qt]], [http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtwidgets/qmainwindow.html#createPopupMenu QMainWindow::createPopupMenu] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150719014739/http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtwidgets/qmainwindow.html#createPopupMenu |date=2015-07-19 }} is a factory method declared in a framework that can be overridden in [[application code]].
* In [[Java (programming language)|Java]], several factories are used in the [http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/xml/parsers/package-summary.html javax.xml.parsers] package, such as javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory or javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory.
* In the [[HTML5]] [[Document Object Model|DOM]] [[application programming interface|API]], the Document interface contains a createElement() factory method for creating specific elements of the HTMLElement interface.