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 ...

Use of streams in the Java ecosystem now is pervasive. However, the fixed set of intermediate operations means some complex tasks cannot easily be expressed as stream pipelines.

But of the millions of applications running on Java today, more than half are using Java 11 in production and nearly 33% are using Java 8, which was released a decade ago.

Java 22 introduces stream gatherers, a new mechanism for manipulating streams of data. Stream gatherers are the delivered feature for JEP 461 , allowing developers to create custom intermediate ...