Custom thread pool in Java 8 parallel stream

Question

Is it possible to specify a custom thread pool for Java 8 parallel stream? I can not find it anywhere.

Imagine that I have a server application and I would like to

Answer 1

We can change the default parallelism using the following property:

-Djava.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.common.parallelism=16

which can set up to use more parallelism.