Factory method VS Abstract Factory

As per GoF

Abstract Factory: provide an interface for creating families of releated or dependent objects without specifiying their concreate classes.

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Factory method: Define an interface for creating an object, but let sublcasses decide which class to instantiate.

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What I understood:

1. Factory in general is to "take out the responsibility of object creation and initalization out from client code to a common place".

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2. As with any pattern, there can be variations based on actual need. There can be various� ways in which factory based solution can be implemented.

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3. Static factory creator method should not be used, because being static it can't be changed/modified/extended. But if the static method picks info from some other source(like config file), ...