Target Adapter Adaptee Client Let’s understand this with an example. Suppose two people who speak and understand different languages need to communicate — one may be French and the other ...

The adapter pattern has three main components: the target class, the adapter class and the adaptee interface. The adaptee is an existing interface that gets adapted by the adapter to the target class.

This application’s main attraction is the SwingComponentNode class—an adapter that lets Swing components masquerade as tree nodes. That class is listed in Example 1. Example 1.