[concurrency-interest] ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor thread timeout

[Robert J. Saulnier]

ScheduledExecutorService executor =
Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor();

executor.schedule(() -> { System.out.println("hey"); }, 1L,
TimeUnit.SECONDS);

executor.shutdown();



On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Assume the task does not know it's the last one...
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Dr Heinz M. Kabutz
> <heinz at javaspecialists.eu> wrote:
> > How about doing this for a once-off scheduled task?
> >
> > import java.util.concurrent.*;
> >
> > public class ForeverYoung {
> >
> >  public static void main(String[] args) {
> >    ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor exec =
> >        new ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor(1);
> >    exec.schedule(() -> {
> >      System.out.println("done");
> >      exec.shutdown();
> >    },
> >        1, TimeUnit.SECONDS
> >    );
> >  }
> > }
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Heinz
> > --
> > Dr Heinz M. Kabutz (PhD CompSci)
> > Author of "The Java(tm) Specialists' Newsletter"
> > Oracle Java Champion 2005-2013
> > JavaOne Rock Star Speaker 2012
> > http://www.javaspecialists.eu
> > Tel: +30 69 75 595 262
> > Skype: kabutz
> >
> >
> >
> > Zhong Yu wrote:
> >>
> >> In this simple example, the JVM never exits:
> >>
> >>     public static void main(String[] args)
> >>     {
> >>         ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor exec =
> >>             new ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor(1);
> >>         exec.schedule( ()-> System.out.println("done"),
> >>             1, TimeUnit.SECONDS );
> >>     }
> >>
> >> because the core thread cannot timeout.
> >>
> >> This creates a problem in a hot-reload environment, where each new app
> >> instance creates a new scheduler thread that never terminates. Is
> >> there a workaround to the effect that the thread can timeout? Thanks.
> >>
> >> Zhong Yu
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