Class::Observable If you have ever used Java, you may have run across the "java.util.Observable" class and the "java.util.Observer" interface. With them you can decouple an object from the one or more objects that wish to be notified whenever particular events occur. These events occur based on a contract with the observed item. They may occur at the beginning, in the middle or end of a method. In addition, the object knows that it is being observed. It just does not know how many or what types of objects are doing the observing. It can therefore control when the messages get sent to the obsevers. The behavior of the observers is up to you. However, be aware that we do not do any error handling from calls to the observers. If an observer throws a "die", it will bubble up to the observed item and require handling there. So be careful. INSTALLATION This is a Perl module distribution. It should be installed with whichever tool you use to manage your installation of Perl, e.g. any of cpanm . cpan . cpanp -i . Consult http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html for further instruction. Should you wish to install this module manually, the procedure is perl Makefile.PL make make test make install COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This documentation is copyright (c) 2002-2004 Chris Winters. This software is copyright (c) 2021 by Aristotle Pagaltzis. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.