A new build and a new structured concurrency API

[Pedro Lamarão]

Hello all,

Thanks for your hard work! Loom shows great promise!

I have made the experiment of writing an application immediately after
reading the documentation you linked.
The result is here: https://github.com/pedrolamarao/sandbox-loom-wget
I think there is great improvement in the most basic usability, even before
error propagation and cancellation.

In this exercise, I made an interesting mistake:
because I am used to initializing ThreadFactory from Thread:::new,
my first attempt to use virtual threads initialized ThreadFactory with
Thread::startVirtualThread.
IDE code completion suggested it, probably because of the matching
signature, and I didn't think twice about it.
When the test failed with "thread already started" it took me a while to
figure out what was the problem.

Regards,
Pedro.


Em seg., 15 de nov. de 2021 às 17:23, Ron Pressler <ron.pressler at oracle.com>
escreveu:

> Hi.
>
> We have just published a new Early Access build of Project Loom over on
> https://jdk.java.net/loom/
>
> The build is based on jdk-18+22, and now requires the --enable-preview
> flag to
> use Loom features (when compiling, remember to also add `--release 18`).
>
> The main new feature in this build is a new API for structured concurrency,
> called StructuredExecutor. To learn more about its motivation,
> capabilities,
> and use, please read this JEP draft [1] and the Javadoc [2]. Pay special
> attention to the new methods added to Future, resultNow and exceptionNow
> [3], and how they complement StructuredExecutor. One of the most exciting
> capabilities of StructuredExecutor is the new structured thread-dump
> mentioned
> in the JEP draft.
>
> Another new feature is the ability to use virtual threads as Cleaner
> threads
> [4]. We have also published a draft JEP for virtual threads [5]. The JEPs,
> like
> the project, are still a work in progress.
>
> As always, we appreciate feedback on these features from those who try
> them.
> Please, download the new EA and tell us about your experience.
>
> -- Ron
>
> [1]: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8277129
> [2]:
> https://download.java.net/java/early_access/loom/docs/api/java.base/java/util/concurrent/StructuredExecutor.html
> [3]:
> https://download.java.net/java/early_access/loom/docs/api/java.base/java/util/concurrent/Future.html
> [4]:
> https://download.java.net/java/early_access/loom/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/ref/Cleaner.html
> [5]: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8277131
>
>

-- 
Pedro Lamarão
https://www.prodist.com.br
Securing Critical Systems
Tel: +55 11 4380-6585

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