How to wait for all threads to finish, using ExecutorService?

Question

I need to execute some amount of tasks 4 at a time, something like this:

ExecutorService taskExecutor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(4);
while(...) {
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Answer 1

Just my two cents. To overcome the requirement of CountDownLatch to know the number of tasks beforehand, you could do it the old fashion way by using a simple Semaphore.

ExecutorService taskExecutor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(4);
int numberOfTasks=0;
Semaphore s=new Semaphore(0);
while(...) {
    taskExecutor.execute(new MyTask());
    numberOfTasks++;
}

try {
    s.aquire(numberOfTasks);
...

In your task just call s.release() as you would latch.countDown();