[CONF] Apache Camel > Camel 2.3 - ThreadPool Configuration

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Camel 2.3 - ThreadPool Configuration Page edited by Claus Ibsen Design Notes for ThreadPool Configuration CAMEL-1588 is the ticket for a new and improved thread pool configuration for Apache Camel. Its intended for Camel 2.3. Scope Camel uses thread pool in various places such as EIP patterns, Components, Async API and whatnot. The aim is to improved and allow easier to configure those thread pools in a more streamlined manner. The goal is to offer both a fine grained configuration where you can tweak individual pools and have more coarse grained configuration with fallback to global settings etc. Outside scope Some components provides their own thread pool configuration and management which Camel of course cannot and should not try to tailor with. For example Jetty is such an example. Usages of thread pools in Camel Currently Camel uses thread pools in camel-core in the following areas: DefaultComponent - Optional thread pool for components in need of such DefaultEndpoint - Optional thread pool for endpoints in need of such DefaultProducerTemplate - Used by the Async API of this template ScheduledPollConsumer - Needs a ScheduledExecutorService to schedule its tasks RecipientListDefinition - The Recipient List EIP pattern SplitDefinition - The Splitter EIP pattern ThreadsDefinition - The threads DSL ToDefinition - Used by the toAsync variation WireTapDefinition - The Wire Tap EIP pattern MulticastProcessor - The underlying thread pool OnCompletionProcessor - For sending async on completion routes SendAsyncProcessor - The toAsync processor variation ThreadsProcessor - The underlying thread pool WireTapProcessor - For sending async wire taps SedaConsumer - To support the concurrentConsumers and multipleConsumers options (uses separate pools) Existing configuration You can configure the thread pool using the setExecutorService setter methods that usually exists on those places where its in use. Some EIP patterns offer a executorServiceRef option to refer to some pool to be looked up in the Registry. We should ensure all EIPs can be configured to use a custom thread pool in a nice and easy way. DONE Using default ThreadPools We should use CachedThreadPool from the JDK Core as its the best general purpose pool for many short lived tasks, which is what Camel really does. Processing many messages in a short live. DONE Only used SingleExecutorService for background tasks, and ScheduledExecutorService for scheduled tasks DONE ThreadPool scope It should be possible to configure a thread pool on either per CamelContext level or per Route level, such as you can do with AutoStartup and the likes. Then you can say, eg this route should use this pool, which have 20/50 in the pool size etc. CHANGE OF PLAN Thread pool configuration by rules It should be possible to to define a set of rules which matches which thread pool a given source should use. It should be pattern based so you can say all EIPs should use this pool, all endpoints that pool etc. A ruleset something like this: <threadPoolRule route="*" source="Aggregator" executorServiceRef="myAggPool"/> <threadPoolRule route="*" source="To" executorServiceRef="mySendPool"/> <threadPoolRule route="route3" source="*" executorServiceRef="myRoute3Pool"/> Where it will match against route first, so if we got a route3 then it will pick among those It should be possible to use wildcard and reg exp in the route and source attributes. The problem with shutdown and restarting pools The ExecutorService API does not allow to restart a thread pool, which is PITA. So we need to find a better strategy for stopping vs. shutdown. Currently when we stop we also terminate the threadpool, and then re-create it on start. This only works for default pools which we can create again. But for custom thread pools we have no way to create them again as the pool is already created when its given to us. We may have to only shutdown thread pools if CamelContext is stopping. And then if end user stop a route from JMX we can keep the thread pool around. Only issue is the scheduled pool should stop scheduling tasks, which may be a bit more trickier to avoid. We have introduced a ShutdownableService to expose a shutdown method which services can implement for their shutdown logic. Then we can only shutdown thread pools in doShutdown() and not as before in doStop(). Status: IN PROGRESS The problem with Component, Endpoint The DefaultComponent and DefaultEndpoint exposes API to get an ExecutorService. We should remove these API as you should use ExecutorServiceStrategy from CamelContext to obtain a thread pool. DONE Managed thread pool Check whether the thread pools is managed by default and avail in JConsole. If not we should probably at least expose some read-only data about the pools. Spring Factory for creating custom pools Create a Spring XML DSL for defining thread pools using custom options such as corePoolSize, maxPoolSize, keepAlive, thread name etc. DONE Pluggable ExecutorService SPI We need a org.apache.camel.spi.ExeuctorServieStrategy which is pluggable so end users can plugin their own strategy how to create thread pools. They can leverage a WorkManager API from J2EE server etc. DONE Customizable thread name We should offer a simple pattern syntax so end users can customize the pattern the thread name is created with: eg Something like: Camel Thread ${counter} - ${name}. Where counter and suffix is dynamic parameters. The counter is an unique incrementing thread counter. And name is provided from the source which as a way to name thread, such as a seda endpoint uri. DONE EIP should mandate an ExecutorService If the EIPS which leverages a ExecutorService, mandates its being created and passed to it, we can enforce creating/lookup the pool during route creation, which allows us to have the route information as well, so we know which routes creates which pools. By passing in null we loose this opportunity. That is why all the EIP Processors should be refactored to have ExeuctorService as parameter. IN PROGRESS Let Camel keep track of created pools Using the DefaultExecutorServiceStrategy we can let Camel keep track of the created pools, and thus also it can shutdown those when CamelContext is shutting down. Then Camel is handling the lifecycle for the pools it creates. And if you pass in a thread pool from an external system then you manage that lifecycle. Camel will in those cases not shut it down. Change Notification Preferences View Online | View Change | Add Comment