When a virtual thread runs blocking code, which is code that forces threads to wait until an operation completes -- for example, executing an HTTP request to a web server -- the Continuation object ...

In fact, you not only get many of the book’s code examples in Java code, you also get POSIX code and code for the Win32 API thread handling. If there were reader exercises at the end of each ...

The immediately previous screen snapshot has the two threads of interest circled. In my adapted code example, I named these “Gaston Bowing” and “Alphonse Bowing” to make them easier to ...

News. Microsoft Visual Studio Code for Java Now Supports Virtual Threads. By David Ramel; November 1, 2022; The October update of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for Java has arrived with ...

Microsoft's Java on VS Code dev team is responsible for the Extension Pack for Java on Visual Studio Code in the editor's marketplace, which sports 15.5 million installs. "Java 19 brings the first ...

"So for example, in Java 21, the Windows 32-bit x86 core has been tagged for deprecation to be removed in a future release. We don't expect a resurgence of it anytime soon," he said with a smile.

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 ...