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Next pattern is called

Tool Façade (or Tool Facade)

It is used when there is a tool with a cumbersome interface like command line with many options and there is a need for a better and easier to use interface, for example, GUI. This can be illustrated on the following UML component diagram:

Excellent example of this pattern is:

StressPrinters

designed as a GUI wrapper around command line tool AddPrinter. Adding the powerful GUI interface allowed to extend its functionality and even find new domains, like testing, where the tool can be used. Excellent information about this tool can be found in the article:

Understanding and using Citrix StressPrinters

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