3.3. Control flow mechanisms

If you have designed anything other than a monolithic component architecture (where all the application functions are controlled by a single program component) then you will need to understand the mechanisms by which you will transfer control from one component (the source) to another (the target).

Like the components themselves, the mechanisms vary by the tier upon which the source component executes at runtime. We will likewise divide this section up accordingly and have a subsection devoted to control flow mechanisms that can be initiated from:

  • Browser-based components, such as HTML

  • Web application server-based components, such as servlets

We deliberately do not include the enterprise tier, not because there are ...

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