The Reaction Asynchronous Programming Framework
- Contents
- 1. Introducing the Reaction Framework
- 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 Opaque Data Objects
- 1.8 Target Platforms
- 1.9 The Reaction Packages
- 1.10 Chapter Summary
- 2. The Reactor Core
- 2.1 The Monotonic Clock
- 2.2 Logging Support
- 2.3 The Reactor Singleton Object
- 2.4 The Reactor Control Interface
- 2.5 Starting and Stopping the Reactor
- 2.6 Obtaining The Reactor Uptime
- 3. Working With Timers
- 3.1 The Reaction Timer API
- 3.2 Running One-Shot Timers
- 3.3 Cancelling One-Shot Timers
- 3.4 Rescheduling One-Shot Timers
- 3.5 Running Repeating Timers
- 3.6 Rescheduling Repeating Timers
- 4. Using Signal Events
- 4.1 The Signal Event API
- 4.2 Receiving Signal Events
- 4.3 Generating Signal Events
- 4.4 Subscribing and Unsubscribing
- 4.5 Finalising Signals
- 4.6 Execution Context
- 5. Managing Deferred Events
- 5.1 The Deferred Event API
- 5.2 Simple Deferred Callbacks
- 5.3 Deferred Error Handling
- 5.4 Deferred Callback Chaining
- 5.5 Deferred Error Callback Chaining
- 5.6 Mixing Callbacks and Errbacks
- 5.7 Execution Context
- 5.8 Chaining Multiple Deferred Event Objects
- 5.9 Deferred Callback Timeouts
- 5.10 Discarding Deferred Event Objects
- 6. Running Threadable Tasks
- 6.1 The Threadable Task API
- 6.2 Running a Simple Threadable Task
- 6.3 Exception Handling in Threadable Tasks
- 6.4 Stateful Threadable Task Objects
- 6.5 Cancelling a Running Threadable Task
- 6.6 Execution Context
- 6.7 Problems With Thread Prioritisation
- 7. Advanced Deferred Events
- 7.1 Advanced Deferred Event API
- 7.2 Using Deferred Event Concentrators
- 7.3 Using Deferred Event Splitters
- 8. The Reaction OSGi Service
- 8.1 Creating the Reaction OSGi Bundle
- 8.2 Activating the Reaction OSGi Service
- 8.3 Accessing the Reaction OSGi Service
- 9. User Interface Design
- 9.1 The Model-View-Controller Pattern
- 9.2 Model Implementation Using Reaction
- 9.3 Example GUI Implementation Using Swing
- References
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