Propagating ThreadLocal to a new Thread fetched from a ExecutorService

Question

I\'m running a process in a separate thread with a timeout, using an ExecutorService and a Future (example code here) (the thread \"spawning\" takes place in a AOP Aspect).<

Answer 1

If you look at ThreadLocal code you can see:

    public T get() {
        Thread t = Thread.currentThread();
        ...
    }

current thread cannot be overwritten.

Possible solutions:

1. Look at java 7 fork/join mechanism (but i think it's a bad way)

2. Look at endorsed mechanism to overwrite ThreadLocal class in your JVM.

3. Try to rewrite RESTEasy (you can use Refactor tools in your IDE to replace all ThreadLocal usage, it's look like easy)