layout	title	folder	permalink	categories	tags
pattern	Event Queue	event-queue	/patterns/event-queue/	Concurrency	Java Difficulty Intermediate Queue

Intent

Event Queue is a good pattern if You have a limited accesibility resource (for example: Audio or Database), but You need to handle all the requests that want to use that. It puts all the requests in a queue and process them asynchronously. Gives the resource for the event when it is the next in the queue and in same time removes it from the queue.

Applicability

Use the Event Queue pattern when

• You have a limited accesibility resource and the asynchronous process is acceptable to reach that

Credits

• [Mihaly Kuprivecz - Event Queue] (http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/event-queue.html)