The java.util.concurrent.Executors class provides factory methods for creating thread pools. Using a thread pool can improve performance by reusing threads rather than creating new ones for each task.

In this Java threads primer, Cameron Laird hits some of the high (and low) points of threads as a concurrent programming technique.

The Java Concurrency Utilities are high-level concurrency types that facilitate threading tasks especially on multicore systems. Part 1 of this introduction featured java.util.concurrent‘s ...

Java 21 is here, and it includes many improvements, such as the preview of virtual threads and the final version of the generational ZGC. Most updates in Java are categorized into different named ...