A Family of Design Patterns for Application-Level Gateways

By: D.C. Schmidt
Published in: TAPOS, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1996
Pages: 15-30
Category: Communications

Summary: Decouple multiple sources of input from multiple sources of output, and route messages without blocking on any I/O channel.

Url: http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/patterns-experience.html

Pattern: Router

Decouple multiple sources of input from multiple sources of output, and route messages without blocking on any I/O channel.

• This pattern uses Reactor as a cooperative multitasking scheduler/dispatcher to initialize and route messages in a thread of control.