Simplify concurrent programming by introducing an API for structured concurrency. Structured concurrency treats groups of related tasks running in different threads as a single unit of work, thereby streamlining error handling and cancellation, improving ... (more…)

Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights. (more…)

Java enums will be enhanced with generics support and with the ability to add methods to individual items, a new JEP shows. Since both features can be delivered with the same code change, they are bundled together in the same JEP. The change only affects ...

If you're a java developer you probably heard (often many times) that java is dead. But this is absolutely not true, and java is more alive than ever before. There were a huge discussion in the java community about the new release cadence, which is now 6 ... (more…)

Finally understanding how thread pools really work in Java can be the difference between your application being a slog, or a clean and efficient system. (more…)