1. Introducing the Reaction Framework
Reaction is a flexible asynchronous programming framework which may be used to implement complex event-driven applications. It is heavily influenced by the Twisted programming framework developed by TwistedMatrix Labs[3] for the Python programming language. While event-driven programming is not a new concept, the approach adopted by the Reaction and Twisted frameworks has a certain elegance which makes it applicable to a wide range of problem domains.
Subsections
- 1.1 Why Asynchronous Programming?
- 1.2 Adding a Reactor
- 1.3 Callback Error Handling
- 1.4 Callback Chaining
- 1.5 Signal Events
- 1.6 Timed Events
- 1.7 Using Java Generics For Type Safety
- 1.8 Target Platforms
- 1.9 The Reaction Packages
- 1.10 Chapter Summary