What is the difference between the bridge pattern and the strategy pattern?

Question

I tried to read many articles on dofactory, wikipedia and many sites. I have no idea on differences between bridge pattern and the strategy pattern.

I know both of t

Answer 1

Adding to willcodejavaforfood's answer, they can be the same, in implementation. However you use strategy to swap strategies such as sorting strategy, while you use bridge to bridge the implementations of two object's say a database wrapper, and a network adaptor so the client code can use either working against the same API. So the naming actually says it all