Difference between Proxy, Decorator, Adaptor, and Bridge Patterns ?

Proxy, Decorator, Adapter, and Bridge are all variations on "wrapping" a class. But their uses are different.

• Proxy could be used when you want to lazy-instantiate an object, or hide the fact that you're calling a remote service, or control access to the object.
  See proxy pattern with details.
• Decorator is also called "Smart Proxy." This is used when you want to add functionality to an object, but not by extending that object's type. This allows you to do so at runtime.
• Adapter / Wrapper is used when you have an abstract interface, and you want to map that interface to another object which has similar functional role, but a different interface.
  In particular Decorator looks very close to Adapter but still there is basic difference:
  

  	Adapter / Wrapper	Decorator
  Composes "origin" class	True	True
  Modifies original interface	True	False
  Modifies behavior of interface	False	True
  Proxies method calls	True	True

   
  See Adapter pattern and Decorator Pattern with examples.
• Bridge is very similar to Adapter, but we call it Bridge when you define both the abstract interface and the underlying implementation. I.e. you're not adapting to some legacy or third-party code, you're the designer of all the code but you need to be able to swap out different implementations.
  See bridge pattern with example.
• Facade is a higher-level (read: simpler) interface to a subsystem of one or more classes. Think of Facade as a sort of container for other objects, as opposed to simply a wrapper. So you don't have to worry about so many things, just call the facade to do all the stuff.
  See Facade pattern with example.