How to use sling thread pool in CQ/AEM

Use Case: You are designing an application where you might need to delegate Job to a separate thread and you want to control this using thread pool so that your application it self does not run out of threads.

Prerequisite: Knowledge of Java Threads and basic Knowledge of thread pool. Note that there are Java Level thread pool as well that you can use. Check http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/package-summary.html for that.

Reference: https://sling.apache.org/documentation/bundles/apache-sling-commons-thread-pool.html

Implementation Example:

Step 1: Create your Thread class

public YourThreadClass implements Runnable {

 public void run() {

    //Your custom logic

}

}

Step 2: Main class to use sling Thread pool


Use CQ dependency finder to find what dependency you need for above code in your pom.xml