== Applicability ==

The Bridge pattern is applicable when:

<li>we want to avoid a permanent binding between an abstraction and its implementation</li>

<li>both the abstractions and their implementations should be extensible by subclassing</li>

<li>we want to hide the implementation of an abstraction completely from clients</li>

<li>we want to share an implementation among multiple objects, and this fact should be hiddent from the client</li>

== Participants ==