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Manager Classes

Started by BierbyteZ Mar 17, 2011 at 1:18 PM 0 replies 950+ views

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Mar 17, 2011 at 1:18 PM

Hello Everyone,

Im a student for application development and I came across those "Manager Classes".
Im wondering what those Manager classes are...
They seem to manage other objects but I cant find any example code how they are build or something...

Can anyone explain it to me and give me links for tutorials or something?

Best Regards
Julian

Antheus

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Antheus

Mar 17, 2011 at 1:31 PM

They are like real world managers.

Always around, getting into your face, they talk a lot about some irrelevant stuff, often have opinions about stuff they don't understand and nobody really knows what it is they do.

A manager class typically performs some functionality of a container. A WorldManager might keep track of objects present in the world as they are created and destroyed and perform additional construction or cleanup. ResourceManager might keep a cache of already loaded resources and know where to load new ones from.

Manager is just a generic name. "We kinda need this bunch of functionality, but don't know where to put it, so it'll just live in that general purpose FooManager for now".

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