On 10/31/07, Kumaran Arul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Trustin said:
>
> "You have to purge them manually"
>
> Does this mean that I need to call "executorService.shutdownNow();"
> In a finally {} block. Will this free up memory consumed by the task?

No.  There's a method called purge():

http://dbs.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/docs/public/java/jdk15beta/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ThreadPoolExecutor.html#purge()

HTH,
Trustin
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