Re: Threads, waiting for last one to finish

From:
Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:05:17 -0400
Message-ID:
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On 01/13/2013 02:38 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:

On 12.01.2013 06:19, Knute Johnson wrote:

On 1/11/2013 1:56 PM, Roedy Green wrote:

I have 25 threads that start at once. I need to wait until the last
one completes. Is there a better way to handle that than using a
ThreadPoolExecutor which seems overkill.


You can always join() them.


I am surprised that this got just one mention so far. In absence of
Executor (which has some issues, as has been mentioned) this is the most
straightforward way to do it.

// untested and from memory
final Thread[] threads = new Thread[15];

for ( int i = 0; i < threads.length; ++i ) {
   final Thread th = new Thread(...);
   th.start();
   threads[i] = th;
}

for ( final Thread th : threads ) {
   th.join();
}

Kind regards

     robert


You're both right, of course. One of the hazards - speaking for myself -
of seizing on java.util.concurrent and reading JCIP through several
times is that one may tend to forget the original Java concurrency
constructs.

I think join() satisfies Roedy's problem statement the best; in any case
the latches and barriers have different endgame behaviour.

AHS

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