Java and the Active Object Design Pattern: Decoupling Method Execution and Invocation
Understanding Active Object Design Pattern The Active Object Design Pattern is a software design pattern that is used to decouple method execution and invocation in an application. This pattern is useful when there are multiple threads that need to modify the same object, but these threads cannot access the object concurrently. The Active Object Design Pattern can be used to ensure that each thread has access to the object in a sequential manner, thus preventing data inconsistency and synchronization issues. This article will explain how the Active Object Design Pattern can be implemented using Java. Java Implementation of Active Object Design Pattern Java provides a simple implementation of the Active Object Design Pattern using the Executor interface. The Executor interface is a part of the java.util.concurrent package and is used to execute tasks asynchronously. The tasks are submitted to an executor, which maintains a queue of tasks and executes them one by one. To use the Active O...