Spring 5 Design Patterns

Active object pattern

The active object type of concurrency design pattern differentiates/distinguishes the method execution from the method invocation. The job of this pattern is the enhancement of concurrency along with simplification in the synchronized access to objects that reside in separate and distinguishable threads of control. It is used for dealing with the multiple client requests that arrive all at once, and also for improving the quality of the service. Let's see the following diagrams, which illustrates the active object design pattern in the concurrency and multithread-based application:

As you can see in the preceding diagram, ...