>From Mark Volkmann tutorial - http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html
"The send function uses a "fixed thread pool" (see the
newFixedThreadPool method in java.util.concurrent.Executors) where the
number of threads is the number of processors plus two. If all of
those threads are busy,
> What I want is some way to schedule tasks to be executed by some set
> of worker threads, and then be able to control the number of worker
> threads on a server. What I'm interested in is other people's
> opinions on how I should architect this app.
Thi
You might want to look into the stuff from JSR166 (scheduled for Java
7, but already available as a library for Java 6), which has advanced,
built-in workload-balancing which is vastly easier than trying to do
this with the raw, naive j.u.c.Executors-package (and Clojure's
agents, which are backed
