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17. Chain of Responsibility Design Pattern

James E. McDonough

(1)Pennington, New Jersey, USA

The next stop on our voyage through the Design Patterns galaxy takes us to the Chain of Responsibility design pattern, another of the design patterns found in the GoF catalog. We will find this design pattern useful when we need to perform specific processing but want to avoid tight coupling between the requester and the servicer.

The Chain of Responsibility design pattern shares some characteristics with the Decorator design pattern explored in the previous chapter. Both of these design patterns rely on an object composed with another object of ...

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