Unfortunately, Java applications taking advantage of multiple threads can at times run into the dreaded deadlock condition. Fortunately, the Java Platform makes deadlock detection relatively easy.

Java virtual threads are much lighter and more efficient than traditional operating system threads, and excel at handling blocking operations. Unfortunately, despite their advantages, virtual threads ...

To give you a sense of how ambitious the changes in Loom are, current Java threading, even with hefty servers, is counted in the thousands of threads (at most). Loom proposes to move this limit ...

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.