Difference between Executors.newFixedThreadPool(1) and Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor()

Question

My question is : does it make sense to use Executors.newFixedThreadPool(1)??. In two threads (main + oneAnotherThread) scenarios is it efficient to use execut

Answer 1

Is creating a new thread directly by calling new Runnable(){ } better than using ExecutorService?

If you want to compute something on the returned result after thread compilation, you can use Callable interface, which can be used with ExecutorService only, not with new Runnable(){}. The ExecutorService's submit() method, which take the Callable object as an arguement, returns the Future object. On this Future object you check whether the task has been completed on not using isDone() method. Also you can get the results using get() method. In this case, ExecutorService is better than the new Runnable(){}.