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I'm trying to design an async framework and wanted to know what people think are the pros/cons of the callback pattern vs the observer pattern.

Callback pattern:

//example callback
public interface Callback{
    public void notify(MethodResult result);
}

//example method
public class Worker{
  public void doAsyncWork(Callback callback){
     //do work
     callback.notify(result);
  }
}

//example observer pattern
public interface EventListener{
   public void notify(MethodResult result);

}

public class Worker{
  private EventListener listener;
  public registerEventListener(EventListener listener){
   this.listener=listener;
  }
  public void doAsyncWork(){
     //do work
     listener.notify(result);
  }
}

I'm working with a framework which seems to use both of these patterns. The EventListener pattern is not the typical pattern as it doesn't have a list of listeners. This can easily be implemented though by creating a CompositeListener which has its own semantics on the priority of listeners and how to handle the distribution of events to each listener e.g. spawning a new thread for each listener vs serial notifications. (I actually think this is a good idea as its a good separation of concerns and is an improvement on the standard observer/listener pattern).

Any thoughts on when you should use each?

Thxs.

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