You use the cancel() method of the Future interface when you want to cancel a task that you have sent to an executor. Depending on the parameter of the cancel() method and the status of the task, the behavior of this method is different:
- If the task has finished or has been canceled earlier, or it can't be cancelled due to any other reason, the method will return the false value and the task won't be canceled.
- If the task is waiting in the executor to get a Thread object that will execute it, the task is canceled and will never begin its execution. If the task is already running, it depends on the parameter of the method. The cancel() method receives a Boolean value as a parameter. If the value of this parameter is true
