How to kill CompletableFuture related threads?

Question

I have method that is checking the CompletableFuture execution time. If such CompletableFuture is executing for more than 2 seconds i want to kill this task. But how can I d

Answer 1

The only way to terminate a thread is via interruption, which is a cooperative mechanism. This means the the thread must implement interruption logic, by handling the InterruptedException.

But it is a really bad practice to interrupt threads that you don't own, which I think is your case.