Design Patterns and Best Practices in Java

The mediator pattern

In many cases, when we design and develop software applications, we encounter many scenarios where we have modules and objects that have to communicate with one another. The easiest approach would be to make them in such a way that they know each other and can send messages directly.

However, this might create a mess. If we imagine, for example, a communication app in which each client has to connect to another one, it doesn't make sense for a client to manage many connections. A better solution would be to connect to a central server and for the server to manage the communication between the clients. The client sends the message to the server and the server keeps the connection active to all the clients, and it can broadcast ...