Various styles of event-driven programming
As we already stated, event-driven programming can be implemented at various levels of software architecture. It is also often applied to very specific software engineering areas, such as networking, system programming, and GUI programming. So, event-driven programming isn't a single cohesive programming approach, but rather a collection of diverse patterns, tools, and algorithms that form a common paradigm that concentrates on programming around the flow of events.
Due to this, event-driven programming exists in different flavors and styles. The actual implementations of event-driven programming can be based on different design patterns and techniques. Some of these event-driven techniques and tools don't even use the term event. Despite this variety, we can easily identify three major event-driven programming styles that are the foundation for more concrete patterns:
- Callback-based style: This concentrates on the...
