http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/woolf/Event-Driven+Architecture
Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
There’s a (relatively) new buzzword (buzzphrase?) gaining popularity, Event-Driven Architecture (EDA).
EDA is a technique for integrating applications where an emitter posts an announcement of an event and handlers receive notification of it. The announcements are transmitted as event messages. Often the event messages are transmitted using one or more publish/subscribe channels–where handlers register [...]