Appendix A. Diagramming Reactive systems
The central aspect of designing Reactive systems is considering the message flows that occur within them. This appendix establishes a graphical notation that is used to depict message flows throughout the book.
In table A.1, a number (like 1 or 2) always represents an ordering constraint: if a component does something in response to an incoming event with number N, then the number on the outgoing event(s) must be greater than N. These usually are not single natural numbers but a variant of vector clocks.
Table A.1. Message-flow diagram components
|
Description |
Diagram representation |
|---|---|
| Primordial component—A component that was created before the depicted message flow starts. | |
| Transient ... |
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