This final part of the series will step outside the domain of standard C and investigate a pattern for event-driven applications. The REACTOR pattern decouples different responsibilities and allows applications to demultiplex and dispatch events from potentially many clients.

Before I start, this is going to be fun. Understand? Fun. Not dull, but fun. I intend writing this in a banana suit with my feet in a bucket of warm rice pudding[1]. That's how much fun it's going to be!

J2SE 5.0 has been available for download since the end of 2004. This new release included many changes and enhancements to the Java platform such as speed and stability. Additionally, some changes were made to the Java language itself.

The Delegate type is a powerful feature of C#. This article introduces delegates, and shows how they can be used to solve a common problem: ensuring that a series of database updates occur as a single operation by use of a transaction.

This part of the series will highlight another principle for dependency management and illustrate how both of these principles may be realized in C using the OBSERVER pattern.

In this article I present a series of thought provoking questions based on some topics that I've covered in past issues.