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The Callable Interface
The Future Interface
FutureTask
An Example

The Limitations of Runnable

The Runnable interface looks like this (minus comments, etc.):

public interface Runnable 
{
    public void run();
}

which means that it has some limitations:

• you can pass no parameters to the thread
• the thread cannot return a value
• the thread may not throw a checked exception.