Hanging threads are a common challenge in the development of software that has to interface with proprietary devices using proprietary or standardized interfaces such as SNMP, Q3, or Telnet. This ...

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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.

Structured concurrency, a new proposal incubating in the OpenJDK community, would treat multiple tasks running in different Java threads as a single unit of work. Multithreaded programming could be ...