This is mainly due to the fact that the Java ThreadPool does not have a mechanism to detect a thread hang. We could try a Cached thread pool, but it also has problems.

Java historically has dealt with this problem partly through a powerful concurrency API and thread pooling. Now Java developers are abuzz about virtual threads, a feature introduced in Java 21. Java ...

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.