How can I make external methods interruptable?

Question

The Problem

I\'m running multiple invocations of some external method via an ExecutorService. I would like to be able to interrupt these methods, but unfortunately the

Answer 1

Like mhaller said, the best option is to launch a new Process. Since your jobs are not that cooperative, you will never have guarantees on the Thread termination.

A nice solution to your problem would be using a library that supports arbitrary pause/stop of ' lightweight threads' such as Akka instead of the executor service, although this may be a bit of an overkill.

Although I've never used Akka and cannot confirm it works as you expect, the docs state there's a stop() method for stopping actors.