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The OoeBridge is the "go-between" that translates from the hooks of the Drupal core world in the ooe.module file and the truly object-oriented, UML-friendly, Webel style OOE PHP code.
Most other UML diagrams in this OOE tutorial are broken down into smaller, easier-to-digest portions according to a tried and tested modelling recipe. By contrast, this diagram below deliberately provides an overview of the entire demonstration system.
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When using OOE page controllers and form controllers with methods as validate/submit handlers, one does not have to pollute the .module file with so many custom callback functions. All you usually need are the main Drupal module hooks like hook_menu(), hook_block_info(), hook_block_view() etc., and these are handled in the bridge very efficiently with menu sets and block sets that collect the required information from, for example, OOE Project classes, and then pass it all back to Drupal as old-style Drupal structured arrays, or however Drupal core requires it.
In other words, usually when working with OOE your .module file and your OO bridge class (extension of AbstractModuleMap ["bridge"]) will be significantly smaller than the one shown here.
Most of the hard work of the bridge is done through delegation to lazily instantiated OOE Project classes, usually extensions of AbstractControlledProject, such as Demo, DemoOfForms, DemoOfPageArguments .
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