How to wait for all threads to finish, using ExecutorService?

Question

I need to execute some amount of tasks 4 at a time, something like this:

ExecutorService taskExecutor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(4);
while(...) {
    tas         


        

Answer 1

I created the following working example. The idea is to have a way to process a pool of tasks (I am using a queue as example) with many Threads (determined programmatically by the numberOfTasks/threshold), and wait until all Threads are completed to continue with some other processing.

import java.util.PriorityQueue;
import java.util.Queue;
import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;

/** Testing CountDownLatch and ExecutorService to manage scenario where
 * multiple Threads work together to complete tasks from a single
 * resource provider, so the processing can be faster. */
public class ThreadCountDown {

private CountDownLatch threadsCountdown = null;
private static Queue tasks = new PriorityQueue<>();

public static void main(String[] args) {
    // Create a queue with "Tasks"
    int numberOfTasks = 2000;
    while(numberOfTasks-- > 0) {
        tasks.add(numberOfTasks);
    }

    // Initiate Processing of Tasks
    ThreadCountDown main = new ThreadCountDown();
    main.process(tasks);
}

/* Receiving the Tasks to process, and creating multiple Threads
* to process in parallel. */
private void process(Queue tasks) {
    int numberOfThreads = getNumberOfThreadsRequired(tasks.size());
    threadsCountdown = new CountDownLatch(numberOfThreads);
    ExecutorService threadExecutor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(numberOfThreads);

    //Initialize each Thread
    while(numberOfThreads-- > 0) {
        System.out.println("Initializing Thread: "+numberOfThreads);
        threadExecutor.execute(new MyThread("Thread "+numberOfThreads));
    }

    try {
        //Shutdown the Executor, so it cannot receive more Threads.
        threadExecutor.shutdown();
        threadsCountdown.await();
        System.out.println("ALL THREADS COMPLETED!");
        //continue With Some Other Process Here
    } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
}

/* Determine the number of Threads to create */
private int getNumberOfThreadsRequired(int size) {
    int threshold = 100;
    int threads = size / threshold;
    if( size > (threads*threshold) ){
        threads++;
    }
    return threads;
}

/* Task Provider. All Threads will get their task from here */
private synchronized static Integer getTask(){
    return tasks.poll();
}

/* The Threads will get Tasks and process them, while still available.
* When no more tasks available, the thread will complete and reduce the threadsCountdown */
private class MyThread implements Runnable {

    private String threadName;

    protected MyThread(String threadName) {
        super();
        this.threadName = threadName;
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        Integer task;
        try{
            //Check in the Task pool if anything pending to process
            while( (task = getTask()) != null ){
                processTask(task);
            }
        }catch (Exception ex){
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }finally {
            /*Reduce count when no more tasks to process. Eventually all
            Threads will end-up here, reducing the count to 0, allowing
            the flow to continue after threadsCountdown.await(); */
            threadsCountdown.countDown();
        }
    }

    private void processTask(Integer task){
        try{
            System.out.println(this.threadName+" is Working on Task: "+ task);
        }catch (Exception ex){
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}
}

Hope it helps!