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What happens if an exception occurs inside an ExecutorService task?

Tests whether you know submit() swallows the exception into the returned Future until you call get() (which rethrows it wrapped in ExecutionException), while execute() with a Runnable sends it straight to the thread's uncaught exception handler -- a silent-failure trap if you never check the Future.

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