Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

Using Class Executors to Obtain an ExecutorService

The ExecutorService interface (of package java.util.concurrent) extends Executor and declares various methods for managing the life cycle of an Executor. You obtain an ExecutorService object by calling one of the static methods declared in class Executors (of package java.util.concurrent). We use interface ExecutorService and a method of class Executors in our example, which executes three tasks.