[ETCH-258] Switch to using util.concurrent instead of pre Java 5 threading constructs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: binding-java, general
• Assignee: Martin Veith
• Reporter: Paul Turner
• Created: 14/Feb/13 21:19
• Updated: 04/Apr/14 12:02

Description

thread creation is quite expensive and so a new thread per unit of work is also expensive, i propose to use util.concurrent threadpools in the java binding sub-project and enhance unit tests e.g. with countdown latches to ensure competing test threads start simeltanously and semaphore to throttle access to running units of work.

affects FreePool, TodoManager and associated tests and possibly more classes