From the course: Java EE: Concurrency and Multithreading

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ManagedThreadFactory API

ManagedThreadFactory API

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at the ManagedThreadFactory API now. So this is a managed version of the Java Standard Edition ThreadFactory that we have taken a look at in our earlier videos. And of course, this is also to create threads in the application, and when you talk about ManagedThreadFactory, this is going to be managed by the container. Like your ManagedExecutorService and your ManagedScheduledExecutorService, this API, too, can be injected using the JNDI lookup or the Resource annotation. Additionally, the interesting thing with ManagedThreadFactory is that it can be used with the Java Standard Edition ExecutorService. Inside the Java Standard Edition platform there is an API, called java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor. This API allows you to create and execute a service, specifying your own configuration parameters. Let's say for the full size, what is a maximum number of thread that can live in the pool, what is a keeper lifetime, how many tasks should be held in…

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