Background thread Tomcat Struts2

I have a web application using struts2 and tomcat 6 as a server. I have to do some logic that is in a jar file, but this take some time to finish. That's why I want to send the data from the execute method to that class in a separate thread, because if I use the class in the execute method I have to wait until all the logic is finished.

I've tried with execAndWait interceptor, the logic is in a separate thread, but I can't do anything in my application until that thread is fi开发者_如何学编程nished (because of the per-session of execAndWait).

I want to know if there's another way to process the logic in another thread?

Thanks in advance

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You can use the Executor Framework that was added in Java 5.

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If you're using Struts2 with Spring you could use the Spring TaskExecutor.

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/reference/scheduling.html