Hosted by OpenJDK, the Loom project addresses limitations in the traditional Java concurrency model. In particular, it offers a lighter alternative to threads, along with new language constructs ...

In this installment of Open source Java projects, Steven Haines introduces Akka, a JVM-based toolkit and runtime that implements the actor model. Get started with a simple program that ...

Most of these tools are now developed through open-source projects. However ... It proposes a significant shift in the release model for Java library development. Java libraries are collections ...