33.3. Failover to Local Services with a Proxy (GoF)
Failover to a local service for the product information was achieved by inserting the local service in front of the external service; the local service is always tried first. However, this design is not appropriate for all services; sometimes the external service should be tried first, and a local version second. For example, consider the posting of sales to the accounting service. Business wants them posted as soon as possible, for real-time tracking of store and register activity.
In this case, another GoF pattern can solve the problem: Proxy. Proxy is a simple pattern, and widely used in its Remote Proxy variant. For example, in Java's RMI and in CORBA, a local client-side object (called ...
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