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Project Loom Update - Lightweight Threads in Java

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Explore the latest developments in Project Loom, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at enhancing Java's concurrency capabilities, in this 42-minute conference talk. Discover how lightweight user-model threads (fibers) are being integrated into the Java Platform to simplify the development of scalable concurrent applications. Gain insights into the project's progress over the past year, including design and implementation challenges faced by the team. Learn how Project Loom enables direct modeling of domain concurrency without resorting to complex asynchronous programming techniques, making it easier to create, read, debug, profile, and interoperate with concurrent code. Delve into the potential impact of this project on Java development and understand how it can revolutionize the way developers handle incoming requests, sessions, transactions, and outgoing requests in their applications.

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Project Loom Update with Alan Bateman and Rickard Bäckman

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