The ForkJoinTask class provides the cancel() method that allows you to cancel a task if it hasn't been executed yet. This is a very important point. If the task has begun its execution, a call to the cancel() method has no effect. The method receives a parameter as a Boolean value called mayInterruptIfRunning. This name may make you think that, if you pass the true value to the method, the task will be canceled even if it is running. The Java API documentation specifies that, in the default implementation of the ForkJoinTask class, this attribute has no effect. The tasks are only canceled if they haven't started their execution. The cancellation of a task has no effect over the tasks that the cancelled task sent to the pool. ...
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