Dynamically Configuring Communication Services

By: P. Jain, D.C. Schmidt
Published: C++ Report, June 1997
Pages: 29-42, 46
Category: Distributed Systems

Summary: Decouple the behavior of services from the time service implementations configured in an application.

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Pattern: Service Configurator

Decouple the behavior of services from the point when service implementations are configured in an application.

• This pattern can use Manager to create and delete services and maintain a repository of services.
• Use with Reactor to perform event demultiplexing and dispatching for configured services.
• Dynamically configured services that execute for long periods can use Active Object
• The Service base class provides Hook Method [Pree94]###Hook Methods that the Service Configurator uses to initiate, resume, and terminate services.

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