Using executors instead of thread groups

The ThreadGroup class provides a mechanism to group threads in a hierarchical structure so you can do operations with all the threads that belong to a thread group with only one call. By default, all the threads belong to the same group, but you can specify a different one when you create the thread.

Anyway, thread groups don't provide any features that make their use interesting:

  • You have to create the threads and manage their status
  • The methods that control the status of all the threads of the thread group have been deprecated and their use is discouraged

If you need to group threads under a common structure, it is better to use an Executor implementation, such as ThreadPoolExecutor. It provides ...

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