In previous tutorial, we learned about basic thread pool executor with unlimited possible number of threads into the pool and it’s example usage. Now lets look example of fixed size thread pool executor which will help in improved performance and better system resource utilization by limiting the maximum number of threads in thread pool. 1) …
Why do we need a thread pool in Java? The answer is when we develop a simple, concurrent application in Java, we create some Runnable objects and then create the corresponding Thread objects to execute them. Creating a thread in Java is an expensive operation. And if you start creating …
Java ThreadPoolExecutor & BlockingQueue example to run a demo task with fixed size thread pool. Also, learn to use RejectedExecutionHandler.
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