Re: An Executor-like structure providing more than threads
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Steven Simpson wrote:
On 17/01/10 01:11, Tom Anderson wrote:
What if the resource needed to perform a task, the thing you wanted to
maintain a limited pool of, reuse, and provide shared access to, was
more than a Thread?
[...] But i really wanted to be able to use all the cool stuff in
ExecutorService, like getting Futures and having orderly shutdown, and
a properly controllable thread pool and so on. So what i did was
subclass Thread to add the other bits (the HttpClient and so on), and
then, in the tasks, do something like:
((DownloadThread)Thread.currentThread()).getHttpClient()
Would a ThreadLocal<HttpClient> be appropriate?
That would certainly do it. ThreadLocals make me uneasy, though. Don't
really know why - intellectually, i know they're no different to a normal
variable with the same scope.
tom
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