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Advantages of using an ExecutorService

The job of managing threads is simplified.


ExecutorService implementations let you stay focused on tasks that need to be run,
rather than thread creation and management.

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The FixedThreadPool ExecutorService
Creating Threads is Expensive

Creating threads, destroying threads, and then creating them again can be
expensive.
A thread pool mitigates the cost, by keeping a set of threads around, in a pool, for
current and future work.
Threads, once they complete one task, can then be reassigned to another task,
without the expense of destroying that thread and creating a new one.

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The FixedThreadPool ExecutorService
The Mechanics of a Thread Pool

A thread pool consists of three components.


Worker Threads are available in a pool to execute tasks. They're pre-created and
kept alive, throughout the lifetime of the application.
Submitted Tasks are placed in a First-In First-Out queue. Threads pop tasks from
the queue, and execute them, so they're executed in the order they're submitted.
The Thread Pool Manager allocates tasks to threads, and ensures proper thread
synchronization.

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The FixedThreadPool ExecutorService
Java's Thread Pool classes

Java has five variations of the Thread Pool.

Class Description Executors method


FixedThreadPool Has a fixed number of threads. newFixedThreadPool

CachedThreadPool Creates new threads as needed, so its a variable size pool newCachedThreadPool

ScheduledThreadPoo Can schedule tasks to run at a specific time or repeatedly at newScheduledThreadPool


l regular intervals.

WorkStealingPool Uses a work-stealing algorithm to distribute tasks among the newWorkStealingPool


threads in the pool.

ForkJoinPool Specialized WorkStealingPool for executing ForkJoinTasks. n/a

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The FixedThreadPool ExecutorService

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