Virtual threads are being proposed for Java, in an effort to dramatically reduce the effort required to write, maintain, and observe high-throughput concurrent applications. A draft JDK Enhancement ...

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.

Java virtual threads are lightweight threads designed to increase throughput in concurrent applications. Pre-existing Java threads were based on operating system (OS) threads that proved insufficient ...

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 ...