对于Thread,它既是工作单元(含有run方法),也是执行机制(start方法)。而executor framework将两者解耦,实现了工作单元和执行机制的分离。executor负责执行任务,runnable和callable代表业务逻辑单元(前者无返回值,后者有返回值)。使用executor framework,我们无须再手动创建Thread,因为executor framework有一个专门负责创建线程的接口-ThreadFactory,该接口只声明了一个方法 - newThread,负责返回一个线程。一个简单的实现是:
class SimpleThreadFactory implements ThreadFactory { @Override public Thread newThread(Runnable r) { return new Thread(r); } }
如果我们在使用executors工具类创建具体的executor时,如果没有显式告诉自定义的ThreadFactory时,则使用默认的线程工厂:
static class DefaultThreadFactory implements ThreadFactory { private static final AtomicInteger poolNumber = new AtomicInteger(1); private final ThreadGroup group; private final AtomicInteger threadNumber = new AtomicInteger(1); private final String namePrefix; DefaultThreadFactory() { SecurityManager s = System.getSecurityManager(); group = (s != null) ? s.getThreadGroup() : Thread.currentThread().getThreadGroup(); namePrefix = "pool-" + poolNumber.getAndIncrement() + "-thread-"; } public Thread newThread(Runnable r) { Thread t = new Thread(group, r, namePrefix + threadNumber.getAndIncrement(), 0); if (t.isDaemon()) t.setDaemon(false); if (t.getPriority() != Thread.NORM_PRIORITY) t.setPriority(Thread.NORM_PRIORITY); return t; } }
如果想自定义线程工厂,则需提供一个实现了ThreadFactory的类(如上面的SimpleThreadFactory),然后当我们创建具体的executor时:
ExecutorService executor = Executors.newCachedThreadPool(new SimpleThreadFactory()); ExecutorService executor = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor(new SimpleThreadFactory()); ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(10, new SimpleThreadFactory()); ExecutorService executor = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(10, new SimpleThreadFactory());
这样,就会使用自定义的线程工厂来创建线程。