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Designing a Server Class

The Facade and Mediator Patterns In Action

Issue: 4.6 (July/August 2006)
Author: Charles Yeomans
Author Bio: Charles is the author of "I Declare: Calling External Functions in REALbasic", available online at http://www.declareSub.com/
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Starting Page Number: 37
Article Number: 4614
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I needed to implement a server as part of an application. In the initial version, I dropped a ServerSocket and an EasyTCPSocket onto a window, made the EasyTCPSocket into a control array, and implemented the events. I then wanted to replace the window with a Server class. But only in a Window can you implement events of other objects. I wanted to keep this capability in order to avoid a tangled mess of event-handling, but I didn't want to misuse a window to do so. Also, I wanted Server to be a singleton object. Here's how I did it.

Let's begin with a subclass DelegatingServerSocket of ServerSocket. To it, we add a public property EventHandler as ServerSocketEventHandler. Because we do not know who will want to handle ServerSocket events, we make ServerSocketEventHandler a class interface. Give it the following methods.

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