Chapter 26. Loosely Coupled Events

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A common need of any component-based system is the capability to enable a component to notify other components that an event they care about has transpired. An example might be a stock ticker component that needs to be updated when a given stock changes prices or a backorder fulfillment component that needs to know when certain parts have been received into inventory.

In fact, this is such a common programming task, that the authors of Design Patterns explicitly named this task and provided a generic means of programmatically addressing ...

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