Is thread starvation deadlock happening here in the code?

Question

//code taken from java concurrency in practice

  package net.jcip.examples;

import java.util.concurrent.*;


public class ThreadDeadlock
       {
    ExecutorServi         


        

Answer 1

The reason is not very obvious from the code itself but from the original book where the code is copied from: RenderPageTask submits two additional tasks to the Executor to fetch the page header and footer...

If the RenderPageTask were a task independent from the newSingleThreadExecutor, there would be no deadlock at all.