How to implement simple threading with a fixed number of worker threads

Question

I\'m looking for the simplest, most straightforward way to implement the following:

• The main program instantiates worker threads to do a task.
• Only

Answer 1

/* Get an executor service that will run a maximum of 5 threads at a time: */
ExecutorService exec = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(5);
/* For all the 100 tasks to be done altogether... */
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
    /* ...execute the task to run concurrently as a runnable: */
    exec.execute(new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            /* do the work to be done in its own thread */
            System.out.println("Running in: " + Thread.currentThread());
        }
    });
}
/* Tell the executor that after these 100 steps above, we will be done: */
exec.shutdown();
try {
    /* The tasks are now running concurrently. We wait until all work is done, 
     * with a timeout of 50 seconds: */
    boolean b = exec.awaitTermination(50, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    /* If the execution timed out, false is returned: */
    System.out.println("All done: " + b);
} catch (InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }