The innovation of parallel streams in Java 8 has diverted attention from a very substantial addition to the concurrency library, the CompletableFuture class. Author Maurice Naftalin eloquently ...

Terracotta does have some significant (to my mind) disadvantages though, especially for parallel newcomers — the kind of folks most likely to move into parallelism through Java. Unlike the other ...

There's a lot that's new in Oracle's recent release of the Java Platform Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7), but for Martin Odersky and much of the Scala community, this release is all about its updated ...

His util.concurrent package was the foundation of JSR-166, which was the java.util.concurrent library released in Java 5. Fork/Join is simply a revision of this JSR.

A team of researchers at the University of Illinois' Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) has developed a parallel implementation of Java.

Java 9 introduces a publish-subscribe framework for reactive streams, improvements to the CompletableFuture class, and other concurrency enhancements ...

A preview feature in Java is one that is not yet added permanently even though its design, specification, and implementation are complete. Presently Java has quite a few preview features in the ...