Java 9 Concurrency Cookbook - Second Edition

Creating a fork/join pool

In this recipe, you will learn how to use the basic elements of the fork/join framework. This includes the following:

• Creating a ForkJoinPool object to execute the tasks
• Creating a subclass of ForkJoinTask to be executed in the pool

The main characteristics of the fork/join framework you're going to use in this example are as follows:

• You will create ForkJoinPool using the default constructor.
• Inside the task, you will use the structure recommended by the Java API documentation:

        if (problem size > default size){           tasks=divide(task);           execute(tasks);         } else {           resolve problem using another algorithm;         } 

• You will execute the tasks in a synchronized way. When a task executes two or more subtasks, it waits for ...