Comparison of ThreadPoolExecutor Service in java.util.concurrent package

Comparison of various ThreadPoolExecutor service in java.util.current package.

Parameters	Description	CachedThreadPool	FixedThreadPool	ScheduledThreadPool	SingleThreadExecutor	SingleThread ScheduledExecutor
CorePoolSize	No. of threads to be in pool even if they are idle.	0 mean no limit	User given value	User Given value	1	1
MaximumPoolSize	the maximum number of threads to allow in the pool	Integer.MAX_VALUE	Same value as CorePoolSize	Integer.MAX_VALUE	1	Integer.MAX_VALUE
KeepAliveTime	When the number of threads is greater than the core, this is the maximum time that excess idle threads will wait for new tasks before terminating.	60	0	0	0	0
Unit	the time unit for the keepAliveTime argument	SECONDS	MILLISECONDS	NANOSECONDS	MILLISECONDS	NANOSECONDS
WorkQueue	The queue to use for holding tasks before they are executed. This queue will hold only the Runnable tasks submitted by the execute method.	SynchronousQueue < Runnable>	LinkedBlockingQueue <Runnable>	DelayedWorkQueue	LinkedBlockingQueue <Runnable>	DelayedWorkQueue

In short SingleThreadExecutor is FixedThreadPoolExecutor with core pool size and max pool size as ‘1’.

SingleThreadScheduledExecutor is ScheduledExecutor with core poolsize as ‘1’.

Apart from above predefined executor services. Concurrent package gives flexibility to customize the parameters of the ThreadPool by using ThreadPoolExecutor class.

Example:

ExecutorService ex = new ThreadPoolExecutor(corePoolSize, maximumPoolSize, keepAliveTime, unit, workQueue);