Apex Design Patterns

The active object pattern

To overcome the preceding race condition in concurrency, we can use the active object pattern.

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The active object pattern decouples the method execution from its invocation. Mostly, the active object pattern executes in asynchronous mode. Requesters submit a task as an object in a queue, and a scheduler picks an object from the queue and executes its logic. An object in the queue knows what to do when invoked, and that's the reason why the name of the pattern is active object.

As Apex does not support multithreading, we cannot create a shareable queue, which can be accessed by multiple threads simultaneously; and therefore, we will do it with the help of the  Pending_Request__c custom object. This custom object will ...