Java’s Fork/Join vs ExecutorService – when to use which?

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Fork-join allows you to easily execute divide and conquer jobs, which have to be implemented manually if you want to execute it in ExecutorService. In practice ExecutorService is usually used to process many independent requests (aka transaction) concurrently, and fork-join when you want to accelerate one coherent job.

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