Java’s virtual threads, introduced in JDK 21 in September 2023 to make it easier to write and maintain concurrent applications, has suffered from a “pinning” issue that arises with ...

When a virtual thread runs blocking code, which is code that forces threads to wait until an operation completes -- for example, executing an HTTP request to a web server -- the Continuation object ...

Virtual threads take the responsibility for allocating system resources out of your application code and into the JVM. Here's a first look at virtual threads in Java 21.

Under the hood, the Java runtime maps them onto a pool of native OS threads called carrier threads. That's where the problem of pinning comes in. If a virtual thread needs to execute blocking code, ...

Microsoft's Java on VS Code dev team is responsible for the Extension Pack for Java on Visual Studio Code in the editor's marketplace, which sports 15.5 million installs. "Java 19 brings the first ...

JDK 21's virtual threads are a major leap forward for Java's concurrency model. Previously, Java relied on OS threads, which were resource-heavy, limiting how many threads could run concurrently.