Reactor (design pattern)

Reactor is a design pattern from the field of software development for event processing (Event Handling Pattern).

It supports the distribution of service requests received from several clients to the responsible event handler for processing by means of a dispatcher / demultiplexer.

Web links

• Reactor - An Object Behavioral Pattern for Demultiplexing and Dispatching Handles for Synchronous Events , Douglas C. Schmidt (English, PDF, 910 kB)