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Subject: Re: Threads, waiting for last one to finish
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On 1/11/2013 1:56 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> I have 25 threads that start at once. I need to wait until the last
> one completes. Is there a better way to handle that than using a
> ThreadPoolExecutor which seems overkill.
>

The Executors class has convenience methods to make thread pools easier 
to use.

   ExecutorService es = Executors.newFixedThreadPool( 25 );
   // submit jobs here
   es.shutdown();

The shutdown() will wait for all jobs to finish.  I don't think you can 
get easier than that.  It's two lines of code!