How to catch exceptions in FutureTask

Question

After finding that FutureTask running in a Executors.newCachedThreadPool() on Java 1.6 (and from Eclipse) swallows exceptions in the Runnable

Answer 1

setException probably isn't made for overriding, but is provided to let you set the result to an exception, should the need arise. What you want to do is override the done() method and try to get the result:

public class MyFutureTask extends FutureTask