How to obtain references to Futures of a scheduledThreadPoolExecutor

Question

I have a scheduled executor service and I require the Futures returned after tasks are scheduled. The Javadoc says that a ScheduledFuture is returned after scheduling a task - however, how can I obtain subsequent Futures of yet to be run tasks?

My call looks like the following: exec.scheduleAtFixedRate(new Task(), 0, interval, TimeUnit.MINUTES);

New tasks are indeed submitted and run, however I only have a future for the first time that the call is made. Is this Future something that is reused or is reusable?

Answer 1

It is the same Future for all the executions. cancelling it cancels the current and all future executions.