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Mediator

Mediator pattern has behavioral purpose and applies on objects. The pattern defines an object that encapsulates how a set of objects interact. It promotes loose coupling by keeping objects from referring to each other explicitly, and it lets you vary their interaction independently.

When to use

  • a set of objects communicate in well-defined but complex ways
  • reusing an object is difficult because it refers to and communicates with many other objects
  • a behavior that's distributed between several classes should be customizable without a lot of subclassing