Two approaches to Java concurrency. The ExecutorService class is part of the java.util.concurrent revolution introduced in Java 5 (and part of Java 6, of course), which simplified thread-handling ...

Hewing to an every-six-month release schedule it has maintained for more than five years, Oracle Corp. today announced the availability of Java 21 and designated it as a candidate for long-term suppor ...

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.