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Java 9 Concurrency Cookbook - Second Edition
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Java 9 Concurrency Cookbook - Second Edition

by Javier Fernández González
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
594 pages
25h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Customizing tasks running in a scheduled thread pool

Scheduled thread pool is an extension of the basic thread pool of the Executor framework that allows you to schedule the execution of tasks to be executed after a period of time. It's implemented by the ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor class, and it permits the execution of the following two kinds of tasks:

  • Delayed tasks: These kinds of tasks are executed only once after a period of time
  • Periodic tasks: These kinds of tasks are executed after a delay and then periodically, every so often

Delayed tasks can execute both Callable and Runnable objects, but periodic tasks can only execute Runnable objects. All the tasks executed by a scheduled pool are an implementation of the RunnableScheduledFuture ...

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