While it’s not that common to work with threads directly in business applications, they’re used all the time in Java frameworks. As an example, frameworks that process a large volume of ...

and an example of using virtual threads under Java. A thread is the smallest unit of a program's execution that the operating system's kernel manages. As a unit of execution within a process, a thread ...

So there are two aspects to managing hanging threads: performance and notification. For the notification aspect we can tailor the Java Observer pattern to fit in the multithreaded world.

Modern operating systems can support extraordinarily large volumes of users, but run into limitations with threads to support them due to CPU and memory constraints. Java historically has dealt with ...