Working with threads on a Service

Question

Hi Gurus,
I am building a service and I want to run several threads on it, and the number of threads will be customized in the component properties file.
I am thinking on doing a method that will read that property (threadsToRun) and it will create as many threads as I need, but I am not sure if ATG does have something similar to this already out of the box.
This is what I have in mind, but it can be a better way to do this.
     public class SubmitOrdersService extends GenericService {
          private int threadsToRun;
          public int getThreadsToRun() {
               return threadsToRun;
          public void setThreadsToRun(int threadsToRun) {
               this.threadsToRun = threadsToRun;
          public void startService() {
               for (int i = 0; i < getThreadsToRun(); i++) {
                    (new SubmitOrdersThread()).start();
          public void submitOrders() {
          public class SubmitOrdersThread extends Thread {
               public void run() {
                    submitOrders();
Regards,
Obed

Answer 1

I am thinking on doing a method that will read that property (threadsToRun) and it will create as many threads as I need, but I am not sure if ATG does have something similar to this already out of the box.I do not think that ATG will have such functionality, because it is not framework specific but a core concept and logic above, you can use.
But would you like to share that why do you want to limit number of threads?
-RMishra