Professional Cairngorm™

10.2. Summary

In this chapter you examined how the pieces of Cairngorm work together by examining a simple login application. The basic Cairngorm logic flow and corresponding classes from the sample application can be seen in the table below:

Cairngorm Logic Flow	Sample Application Class(es)	Triggered By
Cairngorm event is broadcast.	LoginEvent, LoginForm view	The user clicks the Login button.
The FrontController intercepts the event, locates the corresponding command, and triggers the execute function.	LoginControl	The Cairngorm event is dispatched.
The command class decides how to handle the event. This may be by simply updating the ModelLocator, or by calling a remote service, perhaps using a delegate.	LoginCommand	The FrontController finds a command class for the event and calls the execute function.
If a delegate is being used, it contacts the service and registers a responder.	LoginDelegate	Implemented by a command class that calls the desired function.
The command class updates the ModelLocator with any data from the remote service, or updates it based on the success of the remote service call.	LoginCommand	The responder functions are triggered when the remote call has completed.
The ModelLocator notifies views of changes via data binding.	CairngormLoginModel	Data binding triggers updating of views.