Nine Java Enhancement Proposals make the final cut as OpenJDK shifts from feature development to bug fixing ahead of a September release.

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.

Abstract: Key classes are considered the most important classes of a software system. They represent the starting point for reengineering or documentation processes. The detection of key classes is ...

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Multithreading is an important concept in programming that allows the creation and management of multiple threads of execution within a single application. By leveraging multithreading, programs can ...

The Virtual Thread Stream (VTS) library, contained within the javax0.vtstream package, leverages the power of virtual threads introduced in Java to provide a high-performance, easy-to-use streaming ...

The Java team at Oracle is working to address two common cases in which a virtual thread parks or blocks and the underlying native thread is not released. Java’s virtual threads, introduced in JDK 21 ...

On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, the Amazon Kinesis data streaming service in AWS' main region US-East-1 went down for several hours. The company explained the outage in its subsequent failure ...