Questions tagged [observable]

An observable is typically a programming construct that can be "watched" by other parts of the code, called the "observers". Different frameworks and programming languages have different implementations for observables, so this tag should typically be used in conjunction with others.

An observer may be any object that implements interface Observer. An observable object can have one or more observers. After an observable instance changes, an application calling the Observable's “notification” method causes all of its observers to be notified of the change by a call to their update method.

References

• oodesign.com on the observer pattern
• MSDN on the observer pattern
• Java documentation on the Observable class
• Observables in Knockout.js