Manager

By: P. Sommerlad

Summary: Encapsulate management of the instances of a class into a separate manager object. This allows variation of management functionality independent of the class and reuse of the manager for different object classes.

Pattern: Manager

Encapsulate management of the instances of a class into a separate manager object. This allows variation of management functionality independent of the class and reuse of the manager for different object classes.

• Broker [Buschmann+96] and Client-Dispatcher-Server [Buschmann+96] (CDS) provide access to a collection of server objects on behalf of clients. Manager, however, is responsible for the life of the server objects, while Broker [Buschmann+96] and CDS are only responsible for server objects that already exist and are registered.