Content from 2016-10

In order to integrate any (interactive) application the following three parts need to be available, otherwise the integrator will have trouble one way or another:

• objects, representing the domain model; these would be inspectable in order to get the contained information,
• behaviours, allows the external user to invoke them,
• notifications, to react to state changes

E.g. not only does an application need to expose its windows, but also it needs to allow to close or open a window and finally send updates if a window was closed or opened. Notifications in particular need to be in a channel that allows to poll multiple of them at the same time - if communication is done over a socket select and friends would allow the other side to control and react to multiple applications at the same time.