As I mentioned in my previous post, interface FutureĀ in Java up to version 7 has a serious limitation, and that is that it’s not possible to get notified when the result is available. The only thing you can do with a FutureĀ is call get() on it, which will block if...
Futures are one of the many concepts that are useful for building scalable software. A future is an object that acts as a placeholder for the result of some operation that has yet to be performed. This is useful for asynchronous, non-blocking programming, which is what you want to do...