The Builder Pattern was introduced to solve some of the problems with Factory and Abstract Factory Design Patterns when the object contains a lot of attributes.

In the traditional Builder Pattern, ... Now you have to implement something like a Builder/Factory and your buildMeal() ... Jason DeMorrow has been using Java since its infancy in the mid 90’s.

The Factory design pattern is a simplified form of the Builder pattern. In essence, you would want to use the Builder design pattern when you need to create a complex object in a step by step manner.