Is it okay to have many Abstract classes in your application?

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Published on 2011-09-06T10:04:07Z Indexed on 2011/11/24 18:19 UTC
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We initially wanted to implement a Strategy pattern with varying implementations of the methods in a commmon interface. These will get picked up at runtime based on user inputs.

As it's turned out, we're having Abstract classes implementing 3 - 5 common methods and only one method left for a varying implementation i.e. the Strategy.

Update: By many abstract classes I mean there are 6 different high level functionalities i.e. 6 packages , and each has it's Interface + AbstractImpl + (series of Actual Impl).

Is this a bad design in any way?

Any negative views in terms of later extensibility - I'm preparing for a code/design review with seniors.

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