ThreadGroup其实比ExecutorService更好

转自：http://www.cnblogs.com/yy2011/archive/2011/05/05/2037564.html

  用java做抓取的时候免不了要用到多线程的了，因为要同时抓取多个网站或一条线程抓取一个网站的话实在太慢，而且有时一条线程抓取同一个网站的话也比较浪费CPU资源。要用到多线程的等方面，也就免不了对线程的控制或用到线程池。   我在做我们现在的那一个抓取框架的时候，就曾经用过java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService作为线程池，关于ExecutorService的使用代码大概如下：
java.util.concurrent.Executors类的API提供大量创建连接池的静态方法：1.固定大小的线程池：

1 package BackStage;
2
3   import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
4   import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
5
6   public class JavaThreadPool {
7 public static void main(String[] args) {
8 // 创建一个可重用固定线程数的线程池
9   ExecutorService pool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool( 2 );
10 // 创建实现了Runnable接口对象，Thread对象当然也实现了Runnable接口
11 Thread t1 = new MyThread();
12 Thread t2 = new MyThread();
13 Thread t3 = new MyThread();
14 Thread t4 = new MyThread();
15 Thread t5 = new MyThread();
16 // 将线程放入池中进行执行
17 pool.execute(t1);
18 pool.execute(t2);
19 pool.execute(t3);
20 pool.execute(t4);
21 pool.execute(t5);
22 // 关闭线程池
23 pool.shutdown();
24 }
25 }
26
27 class MyThread extends Thread {
28 @Override
29 public void run() {
30 System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName() + " 正在执行。。。 " );
31 }
32 }

   后来发现ExecutorService的功能没有想像中的那么好，而且最多只是提供一个线程的容器而然，所以后来我用改用了java.lang.ThreadGroup，ThreadGroup有很多优势，最重要的一点就是它可以对线程进行遍历，知道那些线程已经运行完毕，还有那些线程在运行。关于ThreadGroup的使用代码如下：

1 class MyThread extends Thread {
2 boolean stopped;
3
4 MyThread(ThreadGroup tg, String name) {
5 super (tg, name);
6 stopped = false ;
7 }
8
9 public void run() {
10 System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName() + " starting. " );
11 try {
12 for ( int i = 1 ; i < 1000 ; i ++ ) {
13 System.out.print( " . " );
14 Thread.sleep( 250 );
15 synchronized ( this ) {
16 if (stopped)
17 break ;
18 }
19 }
20 } catch (Exception exc) {
21 System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName() + " interrupted. " );
22 }
23 System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName() + " exiting. " );
24 }
25
26 synchronized void myStop() {
27 stopped = true ;
28 }
29 }
30
31 public class Main {
32 public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
33 ThreadGroup tg = new ThreadGroup( " My Group " );
34
35 MyThread thrd = new MyThread(tg, " MyThread #1 " );
36 MyThread thrd2 = new MyThread(tg, " MyThread #2 " );
37 MyThread thrd3 = new MyThread(tg, " MyThread #3 " );
38
39 thrd.start();
40 thrd2.start();
41 thrd3.start();
42
43 Thread.sleep( 1000 );
44
45 System.out.println(tg.activeCount() + " threads in thread group. " );
46
47 Thread thrds[] = new Thread[tg.activeCount()];
48 tg.enumerate(thrds);
49 for (Thread t : thrds)
50 System.out.println(t.getName());
51
52 thrd.myStop();
53
54 Thread.sleep( 1000 );
55
56 System.out.println(tg.activeCount() + " threads in tg. " );
57 tg.interrupt();
58 }
59 }

  由以上的代码可以看出：ThreadGroup比ExecutorService多以下几个优势  

1.ThreadGroup可以遍历线程，知道那些线程已经运行完毕，那些还在运行  

2.可以通过ThreadGroup.activeCount知道有多少线程从而可以控制插入的线程数