General talk about software patterns

["Christophe Addinquy" <Christophe.Addinquy AT valtech.fr>]

Hi Reza,
 
Maybe I'm wrong, but it smell like an usage for Doug Smidt' Completion Token. 
This pattern allows to "grab in small pieces" an information that comes in 
several chunks asynchronously.
This pattern is available in Addison Wesley's PLOPD series, volume 3 I think.
 
Regards,
 
Christophe

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        Objet: [patterns-discussion] synchronous and asynchrounous message 
handling
        
        
        To all,
         
        I am wondering if there is a pattern or a set of them that can help 
with my problem. We have a 2 tier application and the UI "queries" the server 
and the results come back asynchronously. This messaging is in need of a good 
overhaul/refactoring.
         
        Are any patterns or any standard approaches that can help in this 
area. My thoughts so far are:
         
        Queries or request are generated, the results of queries "trickle in" 
not atomic, I need a middle layer to handle this query submition along with 
putting the returned packages together and when finalized notify the UI, that 
hey we got results for a query.
         
        Does this sound reasonable? If so, any patterns to implement this 
idea.
         
        Regards,
         
        Reza