Best way to remove a scheduled task with ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor

Hello again all,

I am using a ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor to schedule Runnable tasks. I would like to be able to remove tasks as well. I see in the API that ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor has a remove() method which takes a Runnable as a parameter. Fantastic! How do I tell it which Runnable I want to remove?

I've tried getting the ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor's BlockingQueue and iterating over it:

BlockingQueue bq = stpe.getQueue();
while (it.hasNext())
{
  MyRunnable mr = (MyRunnable)it.next();
}

but as soon as I call it.next() I get a ConcurrentModificationException. Yikes.

How else can I do this? Removing all of the elements (using drainTo()?) off the BlockingQueue and re-scheduling all of the remaining ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor tasks? This doesn't sound like a good idea ...

Many thanks!
Bob

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