Sponsor-Selector

By: E. Wallingford

Summary: Provide a mechanism for selecting the best resource for a task from a set of resources that changes dynamically. Allow a system to integrate new resources and new knowledge about resources at run-time without affecting clients.

Pattern: Sponsor-Selector

Provide a mechanism for selecting the best resource for a task from a set of resources that changes dynamically. Allow a system to integrate new resources and new knowledge about resources at run-time without affecting clients.

• This pattern may use Broker [Buschmann+96], Proxy [Gamma+95], or Strategy [Gamma+95]
• This pattern is similar to Blackboard, Client-Dispatcher-Server [Buschmann+96], and Reflection [Buschmann+96]