Executor was Re: [jboss-dev] org.jboss.web.metamodel.descriptor package and executor service

[Adrian Brock]

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 16:25 +0200, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> (2) Tomcat (and Jboss Web) have the capability to use the Executor
> interface from the JDK for the threads it uses for request processing.
> This means that it would be possible to have an Executor service in AS
> which could provide a unique thread pool among all services which need
> threads, thus possibly saving on the global amount of threads needed.
> Is there interest in that ?

How does this compare with the capabilities of BasicThreadPool
from the common project?

When does JBossWeb's thread pool become available?
What are its dependencies?

As a kind of reverse, could JBossWeb use the executor
(currently an implementation detail)
of the thread pool configured in conf/jboss-service.xml?
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Adrian Brock
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JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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