A Gang of Four behavioral design pattern that defines an object encapsulating how a set of other objects interact, reducing the direct dependencies between those objects by routing their communication through the mediator.
Facts
Core PrincipleDefines an object that encapsulates how a set of other objects interact, replacing many direct references between those objects with references to one central mediator. 2 Connections
Associated With
Erich Gamma, Pioneers Erich Gamma co-authored the 1994 Design Patterns book that named and catalogued the Mediator pattern among the original 23.
In Field
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Design Patterns (book)
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (1994) is a software engineering book describing software design patterns.
2. Wikipedia: Mediator Pattern
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the mediator pattern defines an object that encapsulates how a set of objects interact.
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