A routine that controls a program's reaction to specific external events. One example is an interrupt handler. IBM. See event.
A program with the sole function of controlling a particular input, output, storage device, file, or interruption facility.
a designator for a function with no arguments which usually returns a string to be sent to the client as the body of the http reply
a function of one argument (the condition ) that is invoked to handle a condition
an object that is passed an event to process
an object that processes events
a procedure, formally defined using a procedural language, that is evaluated on the occasion of a specified event
a short hand way to refer to a series of actions the programmer wants to invoke
a user-defined function called by the standard runtime library to handle a specified event that occurs on a specified device
A function that is invoked when you type an associated keyboard interrupt character.
A function that is registered by the application programmer that the system or the application calls when certain events occur in the system or application.
A handler is a callback procedure registered for a certain event. When the event occurs, the event dispatcher will call all handlers in a specific order. In Apache, the events during request processing are marked by hooks. Apache Modules register Handlers for certain hooks, for example for "URI translation".
method within a listener object that will be invoked in response to events in an event-driven program.