The active object design pattern as I understand is tying up a (private/dedicated) thread life time with an object and making it work on independent data. From some of the documentation I read , th...

What is the goal of the Active object pattern? Can you show me any abstract example to understand it easily?

Back in 2010, Herb Sutter advocated the use of active objects instead of naked threads in an article on Dr. Dobb's. Here is a C++11 version: class Active { public: typedef std::function<void(...

I'm looking at ORMs for Java and Active Objects caught my eye. Apparently, it was inspired by Rails' ActiveRecord. Based on what I've read, this approach seems to solve a lot of problems with exist...

I have been trying to figure out how to make a visible image move diagonally in an applet window. If you press up, down, left, or right the image (a gif) moves accordingly, however if you try to ...