"alesj" wrote : | Looking at HDScanner's activeScan I think I might get away with | calling cancel on it, and spinning a bit around until it's done (activeScan.isDone == true) | | Or too hack-ish? :-) Ugh. If you are waiting on a future, use get(), don't spin. Also, if a cancellation is successful, then isDone will immediately be true, even if the thread for the task is still running. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4215890#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...