At 09:15 3/5/01 +0300, you wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > I'd like to know if there any plans to add a generic ThreadPool into the
> > > commons project, I think there is not a generic one, but several
>different
> > > ones have been implemented for Tomcat, Turbine and so on...
> > >
> > > Wouldn't it be nice to define it under (for example) the threading
> > > sandbox-subproject?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > >
> >
> > No one has proposed one yet, although it certainly sounds like the kind of
> > thing that would be appropriate. Would you be interested in gathering the
> > existing examples together (and/or seeing if we could base a generic one
> > off of the "object pool" package), and making a proposal?
> >
> > Craig
>
>Well, this is the risk proposing nice stuff ;-)
>Actually I'm quite interested on developing one. I'll study the current
>examples and make a proposal ASAP. In general the idea will be to develop
>one out of the ObjectPool, creating some amount of initial threads and
>accepting tasks to be execute. This requires the addition of some extra
>methods to execute a thread, for instance:
>
>dispatchTask(Runnable runnable)
>
>Should it be there also the capability to name the threads and give them
>priority, like;
>
>dispatchTask(Runnable runnable, String name)
>
>dispatchTask(Runnable runnable, String name, int Priority)
>
>What about error handling? Should be required that the tasks never throw an
>exception, or the Pool should take care of catching them, at least I prefer
>that every task be responsible of their own errors, but with a final
>(silent) exception catch to maintain the thread alive
>
>Opinions, Comments?
The extensive documentation here may serve as a basis to start with
http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/classes/EDU/oswego/cs/dl/util/concurrent/PooledExecutor.html
Wolfgang.
