[LANG-501] Add support for background initialization

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0
• Component/s: lang.concurrent.*
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Oliver Heger
• Created: 04/May/09 20:21
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 22/Nov/09 17:05

Description

This is a suggestion to add a BackgroundInitializer class that allows initializing an object in a background task. BackgroundInitializer is a thin wrapper around a java.util.concurrent.Future object and uses an ExecutorService for starting a background task that performs initialization.

Issue Links

• depends upon: LANG-499 Add support for the handling of ExecutionExceptions
• is depended upon by: LANG-529 Add a concurrent package