Implicit invocation is a term used by some authors for a style of
software architecture
Software architecture is the set of structures needed to reason about a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each structure comprises software elements, relations among them, and properties of both elements a ...
in which a system is structured around
event handling
In computing, an event is a detectable occurrence or change in the system's state, such as user input, hardware interrupts, system notifications, or changes in data or conditions, that the system is designed to monitor. Events trigger responses or ...
, using a form of
callback. It is closely related to
inversion of control and what is known informally as the
Hollywood principle.
Implicit invocation is the core technique behind the
observer pattern
In software design and software engineering, the observer pattern is a software design pattern in which an object, called the ''subject'' (also known as ''event source'' or ''event stream''), maintains a list of its dependents, called observers (a ...
.
See also
*
Spring Framework
*
Qt Framework
References
External links
An Introduction to Software Architectureby David Garlan and Mary Shaw
An Introduction to Implicit Invocation Architecturesby Benjamin Edwards
Software architecture
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