ExecutorService, how to wait for all tasks to finish

Question

What is the simplest way to to wait for all tasks of ExecutorService to finish? My task is primarily computational, so I just want to run a large number of jobs

Answer 1

You could wait jobs to finish on a certain interval:

int maxSecondsPerComputeDTask = 20;
try {
    while (!es.awaitTermination(uniquePhrases.size() * maxSecondsPerComputeDTask, TimeUnit.SECONDS)) {
        // consider giving up with a 'break' statement under certain conditions
    }
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
    throw new RuntimeException(e);    
}

Or you could use ExecutorService.submit(Runnable) and collect the Future objects that it returns and call get() on each in turn to wait for them to finish.

ExecutorService es = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(2);
Collection> futures = new LinkedList<>();
for (DataTable singleTable : uniquePhrases) {
    futures.add(es.submit(new ComputeDTask(singleTable)));
}
for (Future future : futures) {
   try {
       future.get();
   } catch (InterruptedException e) {
       throw new RuntimeException(e);
   } catch (ExecutionException e) {
       throw new RuntimeException(e);
   }
}

InterruptedException is extremely important to handle properly. It is what lets you or the users of your library terminate a long process safely.