## Package org.springframework.core.task

This package defines Spring's core TaskExecutor abstraction, and provides SyncTaskExecutor and SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor implementations.

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Description

Interface Summary
AsyncTaskExecutor: Extended interface for asynchronous `TaskExecutor` implementations, offering an overloaded `AsyncTaskExecutor.execute(Runnable, long)` variant with start timeout parameter.
TaskExecutor: Simple task executor interface that abstracts the execution of a `Runnable`.

Class Summary
SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor: TaskExecutor implementation that fires up a new Thread for each task, executing it asynchronously.
SyncTaskExecutor: `TaskExecutor` implementation that executes each task synchronously in the calling thread.

Exception Summary
TaskRejectedException: Exception thrown when a `TaskExecutor` rejects to accept a given task for execution.
TaskTimeoutException: Exception thrown when a `AsyncTaskExecutor` rejects to accept a given task for execution because of the specified timeout.

## Package org.springframework.core.task Description

This package defines Spring's core TaskExecutor abstraction, and provides SyncTaskExecutor and SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor implementations.

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