Had I not provided these explicit names in the example (which the original example in the Java Tutorials did not do), they would have been referenced by the more generic names “Thread-0” and ...

All in all, this is a good book — just not your typical presentation of Java threads. As far as the book’s examples go, watch out for Elvis getting caught by the UFOs.

Now Java developers are abuzz about virtual threads, a feature introduced in Java 21. Java virtual threads are much lighter and more efficient than traditional operating system threads, and excel at ...