Explain about Difference between Callable and Runnable in Java
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Difference between Callable and Runnable interface in Java is one of the interesting questions from my list of Top 15 Java multi-threading questions, and it’s also very popular in various Java Interviews. The Callable interface is newer than Runnable interface and added on Java 5 release along with other major changes e.g. Generics, Enum, Static imports and variable argument method. Though both Callable and Runnable interface are designed to represent a task, which can be executed by any thread, there is some significant difference between them. In my opinion, the major difference between Callable and Runnable interface is that Callable can return the result of an operation performed inside call() method, which was one of the limitations with Runnable interface. Another significant difference between Runnable and Callable interface is the ability to throw checked exception. The Callable interface can throw checked exception because it's call method throws Exception. Commonly
