TaskExecutor (Spring Framework 3.2.1.RELEASE API)
Date: 2013-01-24

org.springframework.core.task

## Interface TaskExecutor

- All Superinterfaces:
    Executor
  All Known Subinterfaces:
    AsyncTaskExecutor, SchedulingTaskExecutor
  All Known Implementing Classes:
    ConcurrentTaskExecutor, ConcurrentTaskExecutor, ConcurrentTaskScheduler, GlassFishWorkManagerTaskExecutor, JBossWorkManagerTaskExecutor, SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor, SimpleThreadPoolTaskExecutor, SyncTaskExecutor, TaskExecutorAdapter, ThreadPoolTaskExecutor, ThreadPoolTaskExecutor, ThreadPoolTaskScheduler, TimerTaskExecutor, WorkManagerTaskExecutor, WorkManagerTaskExecutor

      public interface TaskExecutor
      extends Executor

  Simple task executor interface that abstracts the execution of a `Runnable`.

  Implementations can use all sorts of different execution strategies, such as: synchronous, asynchronous, using a thread pool, and more.

  Equivalent to JDK 1.5's `Executor` interface; extending it now in Spring 3.0, so that clients may declare a dependency on an Executor and receive any TaskExecutor implementation. This interface remains separate from the standard Executor interface mainly for backwards compatibility with JDK 1.4 in Spring 2.x.

  Since:
    2.0
  Author:
    Juergen Hoeller
  See Also:
    `Executor`

- - ### Method Summary

    Methods
    Modifier and Type | Method and Description
    --- | ---
    `void` | `execute(Runnable task)` Execute the given `task`.

- - ### Method Detail

    - #### execute

          void execute(Runnable task)

      Execute the given `task`.

      The call might return immediately if the implementation uses an asynchronous execution strategy, or might block in the case of synchronous execution.

      Specified by:
        `execute` in interface `Executor`
      Parameters:
        `task` - the `Runnable` to execute (never `null`)
      Throws:
        `TaskRejectedException` - if the given task was not accepted