What's the difference between the Service Locator and the Factory Design pattern?

Question

I\'m using unity and I\'m creating a class that wrapps it and I dont\' know how to call it, service locator or factory, both encapsulate the creation of the objects, so.... what

Answer 1

Read this from Mark Seemann

http://blog.ploeh.dk/2010/11/01/PatternRecognitionAbstractFactoryOrServiceLocator.aspx http://blog.ploeh.dk/2010/02/03/ServiceLocatorIsAnAntiPattern.aspx

It's good for the begining