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Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin

You're reading from   Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin Build scalable applications using traditional, reactive, and concurrent design patterns in Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788998017
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexey Soshin Alexey Soshin
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Kotlin FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Creational Patterns 3. Understanding Structural Patterns 4. Getting Familiar with Behavioral Patterns 5. Functional Programming 6. Streaming Your Data 7. Staying Reactive 8. Threads and Coroutines 9. Designed for Concurrency 10. Idioms and Anti-Patterns 11. Reactive Microservices with Kotlin 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Proxy

This is one misbehaving design pattern. Much like Decorator, it extends object functionality. But, unlike Decorator, which always does at it's told, having a Proxy may mean that when asked, the object will do something totally different instead.

A short detour into the RMI world

While discussing Proxy, a lot of sources, mostly related to Java, diverge into discussing another concept, RMI.

RMI in the JVM world stands for Remote Method Invocation, which is a sort of Remote Procedure Call (RPC). What that means is that you're able to call some code that doesn't exist on your local machine, but sits on some remote machine.

Although a very clever solution, it's very JVM specific, and has become less popular...

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