Virtual threads, revealed in Java's Project Loom and generally available with the Java 21 LTS, promise unparalleled scalability, simplified asynchronous coding and more efficient resource utilization.

Modern operating systems can support extraordinarily large volumes of users, but run into limitations with threads to support them due to CPU and memory constraints. Java historically has dealt with ...

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Next, I will review each book. Beside each book’s title is a star rating, based on the area of thread coverage on which that book claims to focus, not just an average of the three attributes listed ...

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I have a program perfect for threading. Except at the core of the critical loop I call a Swing method. So how do I best do this? A) Surround the Swing.method() with locks. Sounds slow. B) Come up with ...

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has gathered nine features so far. The latest slated for the release include ahead-of-time object caching, an ...