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Deprecating the Observer Pattern with Scala.React

Maier, Ingo; Odersky, Martin
  • Publication date: 2012

Programming interactive systems by means of the observer pattern is hard and error-prone yet is still the implementation standard in many production environments. We show how to integrate different reactive programming abstractions into a single framework that help migrate from observer-based event handling logic to more declarative implementations. Our central API layer embeds an extensible higher-order data-flow DSL into our host language. This embedding is enabled by a continuation passing style transformation.

Keywords: reactive programming ; data flow ; Scala

(2012)

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  • EPFL-REPORT-176887

Record created on 2012-05-04, modified on 2012-11-08

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