A specialized BackgroundInitializer implementation that wraps a Callable object.

An instance of this class is initialized with a Callable object when it is constructed. The implementation of the initialize() method defined in the super class delegates to this Callable so that the Callable is executed in the background thread.

The java.util.concurrent.Callable interface is a standard mechanism of the JDK to define tasks to be executed by another thread. The CallableBackgroundInitializer class allows combining this standard interface with the background initializer API.

Usage of this class is very similar to the default usage pattern of the BackgroundInitializer class: Just create an instance and provide the Callable object to be executed, then call the initializer's start() method. This causes the Callable to be executed in another thread. When the results of the Callable are needed the initializer's get() method can be called (which may block until background execution is complete). The following code fragment shows a typical usage example:

// a Callable that performs a complex computation
Callable<Integer> computationCallable = new MyComputationCallable();
// setup the background initializer
CallableBackgroundInitializer<Integer> initializer =
    new CallableBackgroundInitializer(computationCallable);
initializer.start();
// Now do some other things. Initialization runs in a parallel thread
...
// Wait for the end of initialization and access the result
Integer result = initializer.get();