Architecture vocabulary

type: language tags: [architecture] aliases: [Vocabulary]

• Module — one .pudu file and its mirrored page under wiki/src/.
• Kind — the typed identity of one message, made once and shared. See [[domain/Kind]].
• Request / Command / Query — a message answered by exactly one handler; a command answers ().
• Notification — a message delivered to every handler of its kind. See [[domain/Publication]].
• Stream — a request answered by a sequence of items. See [[domain/Stream]].
• Handler — the function that answers a message.
• Behavior — a layer around the rest of a pipeline. See [[domain/Pipeline]].
• Processor — a step before (pre) or after (post) the handler.
• Exception handler / action — a component that may answer in place of a failure, or observes it.
• Open component — one that applies to every kind. See [[seams/Open]].
• Route — every component registered for one kind, before composition.
• Envelope / Answer — a message and its outcome carried without naming their types. See [[domain/Erasure]].
• Slot — the one place an erased value of a type reads back.
• Outcome / Failure — a value or why there is none. See [[domain/Outcome]].

Referenced by

[[architecture/_MOC]]