It's not about the architecture of triggering events and event handlers. It's really about how to make this system accessible by humans.

Amen.

Since you need build the app to support ongoing adaptability / expandability, the first thing to do is think about how to optimize, from the perspective of the people who will be doing this, the task of adding / modifying app behaviors.

That means working out a conceptual model for controlling the app that is easy to explain and understand, and then working out a set of cookbook steps that involve the minimum possible amount of input from the person doing the task -- i.e. if the task is structured so that any single piece of information or logic needs to be supplied in more than once place by a human, you probably haven't got the right design yet.

That said, I like BrowserUK's take on the matter, which seems to go in the same direction as tmoertel's notion: capture the relations as data rather than as blocks / objects / classes of code. That will generally mean less code, and less work for the humans who handle the "behavior modifications"; those are both good things.

In reply to Re^3: OT: Design question by graff
in thread OT: Design question by dragonchild

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