Factory Design Pattern

Creational design pattern.

Depend upon abstractions. Do not depend upon concrete classes. Define an interface for creating an object, but let subclasses decide which class to instantiate.

it is one of the "Gang of Four" design patterns.The Simple Factory isn’t actually a Design Pattern; it’s more of a programming idiom. it Hides the object creation process from the client. the factory method pattern is a creational pattern that uses factory methods to deal with the problem of creating objects without having to specify the exact class of the object that will be created. Defining a simple factory as a static method is a common technique and is often called a static factory.
Remember it also has the disadvantage that you can’t subclass and change the behavior of the factory method.

java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection() uses factory pattern.

Head First Design Patterns.