have the followingproposition the set adt can be implemented with an ordered sequence and generic merge scheme that supports operationsunionintersectandsubtract in (ntimewhere denotes the sum of sizes of the sets involved generic merging as template method pattern the generic merge algorithm is based on the template method pattern (see section the template method pattern is software engineering design pattern describing generic computation mechanism that can be specialized by redefining certain steps in this casewe describe method that merges two sequences into one and can be specialized by the behavior of three abstract methods code fragment shows the class merge providing java implementation of the generic merge algorithm code fragment class merge for generic merging