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Re: [patterns-discussion] Fw: Re: [gang-of-4-patterns] Live or Animated Object Design Pattern

From: Ralph Johnson <johnson AT cs.uiuc.edu>
To: Messaging Design Pattern <dsheppard2k AT yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [patterns-discussion] Fw: Re: [gang-of-4-patterns] Live or Animated Object Design Pattern
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 13:21:06 -0500
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google "Java actors".

There are actor systems for Groovy, Scala, as well as normal Java. Actors might be an old idea from the 70s, but they are finally becoming popular and are implemented in many systems. And the ideas in actors are the same as in your pattern.

It is a good idea but a bad name. The right name is 'actor' because that is the name that everybody else is using. It is too late to call them "live objects".

-Ralph

[patterns-discussion] Fw: Re: [gang-of-4-patterns] Live or Animated Object Design Pattern, Messaging Design Pattern, 05/07/2011
- Re: [patterns-discussion] Fw: Re: [gang-of-4-patterns] Live or Animated Object Design Pattern, Ralph Johnson, 05/07/2011