Program does not terminate immediately when all ExecutorService tasks are done

Question

I put a bunch of runnable objects into an ExecutorService:

// simplified content of main method
ExecutorService threadPool = Executors.newCachedThreadPool();         


        

Answer 1

Basically on an ExecutorService you call shutdown() and then awaitTermination():

ExecutorService taskExecutor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(4);
while(...) {
   taskExecutor.execute(new MyTask());
}
taskExecutor.shutdown();
try {
  taskExecutor.awaitTermination(Long.MAX_VALUE, TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
  ...
}