DesignΒΆ
The project is a first attempt to explore the thoughts presented in Object Thinking, by David West, Microsoft Press, 2004
This section describes the objects in the system, their responsibility, collaborators, as well as their methods.
MessageReceiver
- Responsibilities
- Waits for raw Inbus network messages and passes them to the MessageTranslator
- Collaborators
- (System)
- MessageTranslator
- Methods
- waitForMessage
IncomingMessageTranslator
- Responsibilities
- Translates raw Inbus messages to either a Subscribe, Unsubscribe or Publish method, and invokes those methods on its InbusMethodObserver
- Collaborators
- List of InbusMethodObservers
- Methods
- translate
Broadcaster isA InbusMethodObserver
- Responsibilities
- Broadcasting Publications to a list of Subscribers
- Collaborators
- Registry
- OutgoingMessageTranslator
- MessageSender
- Methods
- publish
Registry isA MesssageListener
- Responsibilities
- Manages a list of subscribers.
- Collaborators
- None
- Methods
- subscribe add a subscriber
- unsubscribe: remove from registry
- subscribers: returns a list of subscribers
OutgoingMessageTranslator
- Responsibilities
- Translate the publish method into a raw Inbus network message
- Collaborators
- None
- Methods
- translate
MessageSender
- Responsibilities
- Sends a raw Inbus network message to the network
- Collaborators
- (System)
- Methods
- send