What is the use of a Thread pool in Java?

Question

What is the use of a Thread pool? Is there a good real world example?

Answer 1

A simple Google search will result in a wealth of information regarding Java thread pools and thread pools in general.

Here are some helpful links:

• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/pools.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_pool_pattern