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

A crazy and unclean solution which might work (not real thought through or tested) would be to overwrite the interrupt() of your WorkerTasks which only in case some global value is set refuse to shutdown when interrupt() is called on them by shutdownNow().

That should allow you to use shutdownNow() no?