On 2 Feb 2015, at 11:36, Paul Sandoz <paul.san...@oracle.com> wrote: > ... >> This was a nasty race. In fact there is no guarantee that the CF, that sets >> the AtomicReference would even complete, without join/get, right ? >> > > I think the async completion of the thenComposed task will trigger (in the > same thread) the completion of the dependent whenCompleted task, such that > one could use a count down latch (which would be an odd thing to use).
Ah ok. I was thinking of the chain of CF’s as a stream, where you need some action to pull the result through. I think it depends on the sequence of async and same thread stages, maybe not, I’d need to look into the details a little more. -Chris. > Paul.
