# system.util.invokeAsynchronous threading details

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, scripting\
**Created:** [May 31, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-util-invokeasynchronous-threading-details/91221 "2024-05-31T19:30:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-util-invokeasynchronous-threading-details/91221/7 "2025-02-03T16:39:40Z")

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You could also, with [some amount of effort](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/issues-when-using-system-util-invokeasynchronous-i-get-a-nonetype-object-is-not-callable-error/97022/11), use the standard libraries' built in ForkJoinPool used for the `CompletableFuture` API. If we were designing `invokeAsynchronous` again from scratch, this is what we'd almost certainly use 'under the hood', but the function predates `CompletableFuture` entirely.

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