Project Loom: Scalable, Harmonious Concurrency for the Java Platform

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Project Loom.  One of the biggest and most important features ever added to the Java Language in the past decade.

Concurrent applications, those serving multiple independent application actions simultaneously, are the bread and butter of Java server-side programming. The Thread has been Java’s primary unit of concurrency since Java’s inception, and is a core construct around which the entire Java platform is designed. But its cost is such that it can no longer efficiently represent a domain unit of concurrency, such as the session, request or transaction. As a result, Java has seen a proliferation of libraries and frameworks that offer scalability at the cost of abandoning the Thread as the unit of software concurrency and, with it, the straightforward support of Java’s observability tooling, such as debuggers and profilers. Project Loom aims to reinstate the Thread as an efficient unit of concurrency by adding a lightweight implementation of threads to the Java platform. This would allow straightforward code that’s easy to write, understand and maintain. It would be a useful abstraction that works in harmony with the platform and its tooling to scale and meet the requirements of even the most demanding concurrent applications.BIORon Pressler works at Oracle, in the Java Platform Group, and is the technical lead for OpenJDK&#x27;s Project Loom.Please review Ron&#x27;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEPEXTpbJA" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">full presentation</a> on Project Loom. He will give a shortened version of his talk and leave plenty of time for questions from the NYJavaSIG.

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