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Practical Design Patterns for Java Developers
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The active object design pattern separates and defers method execution from method invocation by running its own control thread.
The active object pattern introduces a transparently concurrent model to the application. It creates and starts an internal thread that executes the required logical, critical section. An active object instance exposes a public interface that a client can use to run an encapsulated critical section. An external, client-initiated event is queued and ready to execute. The execution step is performed by the internal scheduler. The result can be passed to the appropriate handler in a callback style.
Let us introduce an example of a moving vehicle with a radio system (Example 6.1):
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
System.out.println("Active Object Pattern, moving
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