Impossible to make a cached thread pool with a size limit?

Question

It seems to be impossible to make a cached thread pool with a limit to the number of threads that it can create.

Here is how static Executors.newCachedThreadPool is

Answer 1

Doesn't look as though any of the answers actually answer the question - in fact I can't see a way of doing this - even if you subclass from PooledExecutorService since many of the methods/properties are private e.g. making addIfUnderMaximumPoolSize was protected you could do the following:

class MyThreadPoolService extends ThreadPoolService {
    public void execute(Runnable run) {
        if (poolSize() == 0) {
            if (addIfUnderMaximumPoolSize(run) != null)
                return;
        }
        super.execute(run);
    }
}

The closest I got was this - but even that isn't a very good solution

new ThreadPoolExecutor(min, max, 60L, TimeUnit.SECONDS, new LinkedBlockingQueue()) {
    public void execute(Runnable command) {
        if (getPoolSize() == 0 && getActiveCount() < getMaximumPoolSize()) {        
            super.setCorePoolSize(super.getCorePoolSize() + 1);
        }
        super.execute(command);
    }

    protected void afterExecute(Runnable r, Throwable t) {
         // nothing in the queue
         if (getQueue().isEmpty() && getPoolSize() > min) {
             setCorePoolSize(getCorePoolSize() - 1);
         }
    };
 };

p.s. not tested the above