Another blog of my threading series. This time it's about thread pools, robust thread pool settings in particular. In Java thread pools are implemented by the
ThreadPoolExecutor class introduced in Java 5. The Javadoc of that class is very well organized. So I spare me the effort to give a general introduction here. Basically, what
ThreadPoolExecutor does is, it creates and manages threads that process
Runnable tasks that were submitted to a work queue by an arbitrary client. It's a mechanism to perform work asynchronously, which is an important capability in times of multi-core machines and cloud computing.
