Question

ExecutorService中submit和execute的区别

Answer 1

三个区别：

1、接收的参数不一样

2、submit有返回值，而execute没有

Method submit extends base method Executor.execute by creating and returning a Future that can be used to cancel execution and/or wait for completion.

用到返回值的例子，比如说我有很多个做validation的task，我希望所有的task执行完，然后每个task告诉我它的执行结果，是成功还是失败，如果是失败，原因是什么。然后我就可以把所有失败的原因综合起来发给调用者。

个人觉得cancel execution这个用处不大，很少有需要去取消执行的。

而最大的用处应该是第二点。

3、submit方便Exception处理

There is a difference when looking at exception handling. If your tasks throws an exception and if it was submitted with execute this exception will go to the uncaught exception handler (when you don't have provided one explicitly, the default one will just print the stack trace to System.err). If you submitted the task with submit any thrown exception, checked or not, is then part of the task's return status. For a task that was submitted with submit and that terminates with an exception, the Future.get will rethrow this exception, wrapped in an ExecutionException.

意思就是如果你在你的task里会抛出checked或者unchecked exception，而你又希望外面的调用者能够感知这些exception并做出及时的处理，那么就需要用到submit，通过捕获Future.get抛出的异常。