Executor Service - timeout of thread

Question

While I was exploring ExecutorService, I encountered a method Future.get() which accepts the timeout.

The Java doc of this method

Answer 1

The timeout on get() is for how long the 'client' will wait for the Future to complete. It does not have an impact on the future's execution.

Object result;
int seconds = 0;
while ((result = fut.get.(1, TimeUnit.SECOND)) == null) {
    seconds++;
    System.out.println("Waited " + seconds + " seconds for future";
}