final ReentrantLock lock = new ReentrantLock();
    .....
    public void putFirst(E e) throws InterruptedException {
        if (e == null) throw new NullPointerException();
        Node<E> node = new Node<E>(e);
        final ReentrantLock lock = this.lock;
        lock.lock();
        try {
            while (!linkFirst(node))
                notFull.await();
        } finally {
            lock.unlock();
        }
    }

    /**
     * The queue used for holding tasks and handing off to worker
     * threads.  We do not require that workQueue.poll() returning
     * null necessarily means that workQueue.isEmpty(), so rely
     * solely on isEmpty to see if the queue is empty (which we must
     * do for example when deciding whether to transition from
     * SHUTDOWN to TIDYING).  This accommodates special-purpose
     * queues such as DelayQueues for which poll() is allowed to
     * return null even if it may later return non-null when delays
     * expire.
     */
    private final BlockingQueue<Runnable> workQueue;

 public ThreadPoolExecutor(int corePoolSize,
                              int maximumPoolSize,
                              long keepAliveTime,
                              TimeUnit unit,
                              BlockingQueue<Runnable> workQueue,
                              ThreadFactory threadFactory,
                              RejectedExecutionHandler handler) {
        if (corePoolSize < 0 ||
            maximumPoolSize <= 0 ||
            maximumPoolSize < corePoolSize ||
            keepAliveTime < 0)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException();
        if (workQueue == null || threadFactory == null || handler == null)
            throw new NullPointerException();
        this.corePoolSize = corePoolSize;
        this.maximumPoolSize = maximumPoolSize;
        this.workQueue = workQueue;
        this.keepAliveTime = unit.toNanos(keepAliveTime);
        this.threadFactory = threadFactory;
        this.handler = handler;
    }

    /**
     * Inserts the specified element into this queue if it is possible to do
     * so immediately without violating capacity restrictions, returning
     * {@code true} upon success and {@code false} if no space is currently
     * available.  When using a capacity-restricted queue, this method is
     * generally preferable to {@link #add}, which can fail to insert an
     * element only by throwing an exception.
     *
     * @param e the element to add
     * @return {@code true} if the element was added to this queue, else
     *         {@code false}
     * @throws ClassCastException if the class of the specified element
     *         prevents it from being added to this queue
     * @throws NullPointerException if the specified element is null
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if some property of the specified
     *         element prevents it from being added to this queue
     */
    boolean offer(E e);