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

Until now, I used the solutions described in the answers of this question. Now, I came up with a little library called Parallel Stream Support for that:

ForkJoinPool pool = new ForkJoinPool(NR_OF_THREADS);
ParallelIntStreamSupport.range(1, 1_000_000, pool)
    .filter(PrimesPrint::isPrime)
    .collect(toList())

But as @PabloMatiasGomez pointed out in the comments, there are drawbacks regarding the splitting mechanism of parallel streams which depends heavily on the size of the common pool. See Parallel stream from a HashSet doesn't run in parallel .

I am using this solution only to have separate pools for different types of work but I can not set the size of the common pool to 1 even if I don't use it.