Question

I have several methods (involving network operations) which take quite a long time. I want to call them asynchronously and check the status from time to time. What’s the recommended way to do it in Java?

Answer 1

I would use a FutureTask.
You give it the task, you can provide code to be run when the task is over (the protected done method), and you can check it’s status with the isDone method.
If you’re writing a swing application you could also use SwingWorker