Active Object: An Object Behavioral Pattern for Concurrent Programming

By: R.G. Lavender, D.C. Schmidt

Summary: Decouple method execution from method invocation to simplify synchronized access to a shared resource.

Pattern: Active Object

Decouple method execution from method invocation to simplify synchronized access to a shared resource.

• Half-Sync/Half-Async decouples synchronous I/O from asynchronous I/O and typically uses Active Object to implement the synchronous layer.

Url: http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/patterns-ace.html