Hi,
I have an ExecutorService which I'm using to solve a recursive problem. Initially I call submit on this pool passing to it the entire task it has to solve. The task class implements Callable and its method call
makes some calculations and them breaks the problem into two pieces, which I want to solve using other threads on the same pool. So in the task constructor I pass a reference to the same pool so its call method
can call submit on the same pool so the two pieces can be solved by threads on the pool as well. My problem is that I want to call "get" to wait for the results. Obviously, if I have just one thread on the pool, for example,
it will call submit on the pool and then get, but it will wait forever since there are no other threads to run that task it submitted.
So, the bigger my problem is, the more I'll need threads in my pool. I have "solved" the problem by using a CachedThreadPool, which gave me another problem: it creates threads on demand which is not what I want either.
I want a pool with a fixed number of threads. Can you give a suggestion?