Builder design pattern with inheritance: is there a better way?

Question

I\'m creating a series of builders to clean up the syntax which creates domain classes for my mocks as part of improving our overall unit tests. My builders essentially pop

Answer 1

All I can say is that if there is a way of doing it, I want to know about it too - I use exactly this pattern in my Protocol Buffers port. In fact, I'm glad to see that someone else has resorted to it - it means we're at least somewhat likely to be right!