How to name factory like methods?

Question

I guess that most factory-like methods start with create. But why are they called \"create\"? Why not \"make\", \"produce\", \"build\", \"generate\" or something el

Answer 1

Partly convention, partly semantics.

Factory methods (signalled by the traditional create) should invoke appropriate constructors. If I saw buildURI, I would assume that it involved some computation, or assembly from parts (and I would not think there was a factory involved). The first thing that I thought when I saw generateURI is making something random, like a new personalized download link. They are not all the same, different words evoke different meanings; but most of them are not conventionalised.