Acceptor and Connector

By: D.C. Schmidt

Summary: Decouple service initialization from the services provided for active or passive initialization.

Published in: PLoPD3
Pages: 191-229

Url: http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/report-art.html

Pattern: Acceptor

Decouple service initialization from the services provided. This pattern is for passive initialization.

Category: Communications, Concurrent Systems, Distributed Systems

• Connector is for active initialization.
• This pattern can be used with Active Object, Reactor, and Service Configurator
• This pattern uses Factory Method [Gamma+95] and Template Method [Gamma+95]

Pattern: Connector

Decouple service initialization from the services provided. This pattern is for active initialization.

• Acceptor is for passive initialization.
• This pattern can be used with Active Object, Reactor, and Service Configurator
• This pattern uses Factory Method [Gamma+95] and Template Method [Gamma+95].
• This pattern is similar to Client-Dispatcher-Server [Buschmann+96] (CDS). This pattern addresses both synchronous and asynchronous service initializations, while CDS focuses on synchronous connection.