'ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor' with zero core threads

Reports any java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor instances in which corePoolSize is set to zero via the setCorePoolSize method or the object constructor.

A ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor with zero core threads will run nothing.

Example:

  void foo(int corePoolSize) {
      if (corePoolSize != 0) return;
      ThreadPoolExecutor executor = new ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor(corePoolSize); // warning
      executor.setCorePoolSize(corePoolSize); // warning
  }

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ScheduledThreadPoolExecutorWithZeroCoreThreads

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Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection ScheduledThreadPoolExecutorWithZeroCoreThreads

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IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025