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Head First Design Patterns
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Head First Design Patterns

by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra
October 2004
Intermediate to advanced
692 pages
15h 18m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 2. The Observer Pattern: Keeping your Objects in the know

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Don’t miss out when something interesting happens! We’ve got a pattern that keeps your objects in the know when something they might care about happens. Objects can even decide at runtime whether they want to be kept informed. The Observer Pattern is one of the most heavily used patterns in the JDK, and it’s incredibly useful. Before we’re done, we’ll also look at one-to-many relationships and loose coupling (yeah, that’s right, we said coupling). With Observer, you’ll be the life of the Patterns Party.

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