Java: Handling exceptions in child threads

Question

I prefer to have the exception handling logic further up in the call stack, near the main method. I like this approach... However, I created a thread where some of its metho

Answer 1

You can use an ExecutorService here to submit a callable and receive a Future. At the point you would at the very least want the Exception to be propagated to the invoking thread you would invoke future.get()

future.get() will propogate any exception thrown in the call method to the thread that is invoking future.get(). So if your main thread invokes future.get() then the main thread will see any exceptions thrown.