The Executor framework provides a mechanism that separates the implementation of tasks from thread creation and management to execute the tasks. If you use an executor, you only have to implement Runnable objects and send them to the executor. It is the responsibility of an executor to manage threads. When you send a task to an executor, it tries to use a pooled thread for executing the task in order to avoid the creation of new threads. This mechanism is offered by the Executor interface and its implementing classes as the ThreadPoolExecutor class.
In this recipe, you will learn what information you can obtain about the status of a ThreadPoolExecutor executor and how to obtain it.
