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 ...

One example is using semaphores to control the number of threads when accessing a resource like a datastore, instead of using a thread pool with a limit. See Coming to Java 19: Virtual threads and ...

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.

Java and Threads (Networking too!) sryan2k1 May 6, 2005 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...