Removing all queued tasks of an ThreadPoolExecutor

Question

i have this rather simple question about the ThreadPoolExecutor. I have the following situation: I have to consume objects from a queue, create the appropiate worker tasks f

Answer 1

This is an old question, but in case this helps somebody else: you could set a volatile boolean when you call shutdown(), and have each submitted task terminate if that boolean is set before really starting. This will allow tasks which have genuinely started to complete, but will prevent queued tasks from starting their actual activity.