The difference between the Runnable and Callable interfaces in Java

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See explanation here.

The Callable interface is similar to
Runnable, in that both are designed
for classes whose instances are
potentially executed by another
thread. A Runnable, however, does not
return a result and cannot throw a
checked exception.

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