{"id":563,"date":"2004-02-02T09:33:11","date_gmt":"2004-02-02T13:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cephas.net\/?p=563"},"modified":"2004-02-02T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2004-02-02T13:33:11","slug":"asynchronous-method-invocation-in-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2004\/02\/02\/asynchronous-method-invocation-in-java\/","title":{"rendered":"Asynchronous Method Invocation in Java"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m working on a web application that needs to kick off a process that could take anywhere from 5 seconds to an hour, so I need to be able to call a method and have it return immediately. A google search for ‘java asynchronous method<\/a>‘ didn’t return much, except this<\/a>, which seems to indicate that simply spawning a new thread within a method will do the job. Basically you end up with something like this:
\n
\npublic class LongProcess implements Runnable {
\n  public void startProcess() {
\n    Thread t = new Thread(this);
\n    t.start();
\n  }
\n  
\n  public void run() {
\n    \/\/ perform the long running process
\n  }
\n}
\n<\/code>
\nand then you can kick the process off like this:
\n
\nLongProcess p = new LongProcess();
\np.startProcess();
\n<\/code>
\nThe other solution I thought of would be to use an asychronous xml-rpc call<\/a>, although this obviously has more overhead.<\/p>\n

Are there any solutions I’m missing? What would you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m working on a web application that needs to kick off a process that could take anywhere from 5 seconds to an hour, so I need to be able to call a method and have it return immediately. A google search for ‘java asynchronous method‘ didn’t return much, except this, which seems to indicate that … Continue reading Asynchronous Method Invocation in Java<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}