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Asked: 2026-05-23T10:36:42+00:00

I have an application (a servlet, but that’s not very important) that downloads a

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I have an application (a servlet, but that’s not very important) that downloads a set of files and parse them to extract information. Up to now, I did those operations in a loop :
– fetching new file on the Internet
– analyzing it.

A multi-threaded download-manager seems a better solution for this problem and I would like to implement it in the fastest way possible.

Some of the downloads are dependant from others (so, this set is partially ordered).

Mutli-threaded programming is hard and if I could find an API to do that I would be quite happy. I need to put a group of files (ordered) in a queue and get the first group of files that is completely downloaded.

Do you know of any library I could use to achieve that ?

Regards,
Stéphane

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could do something like:

    BlockingQueue<Download> queue = new BlockingQueue<Download>();
ExecutorService pool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(5);
Download obj = new Download(queue); 
pool.execute(obj); //start download and place on queue once completed
Data data = queue.take(); //get completely downloaded item

    You may have to use a different kind of queue if the speed of each download is not the same. BlockingQueue is first in first out I believe.

    You may want to look into using a PriorityBlockingQueue which will order the Download objects according to their Comparable method. See the API here for more details.

    Hope this helps.

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