EV.3. Third-Party Objects
One of the basic reasons for the event design is to allow the production of third-party objects, or “agents,” that can be used to enhance a system built using distributed events and notifications. Now we will look at three examples of such agents, which allow various forms of enhanced functionality without changing the basic interfaces. Each of these agents may be thought of as distributed event adapters.
The first example we will look at is a store-and-forward agent. The purpose of this object is to act on behalf of the event generator, allowing the event generator to send the notification to one entity (the store-and-forward agent) that will forward the notification to all of the event listeners, perhaps with a particular ...
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