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On 11/30/2011 6:10 AM, Roedy Green wrote:

> Huh?  is that not the most common case?

No.

> So it looks like I have to compose a custom blocking policy handler.

Read it again, or just use a fixed size thread pool from Executors. 
It'll work fine.