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Design Patterns in C#
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Design Patterns in C#

by Steven John Metsker
April 2004
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
8h 29m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 10. Mediator

Ordinary OO development distributes responsibility as far as it will go, with each object doing its own work independently. The OBSERVER pattern supports this distribution by minimizing the responsibility of an object that other objects find interesting. The SINGLETON pattern also resists the distribution of responsibility and lets you centralize responsibility in particular objects that clients locate and reuse. Like SINGLETON, the MEDIATOR pattern centralizes responsibility, but for a particular set of objects rather than for all the clients in a system.

Providing a central authority for a group of objects is useful when the interactions between the objects gravitate toward the complex condition where every object is aware ...

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