Server-side programming on the JVM - concurrency, scalability, distributed systems, Java, Scala, Kotlin
Last week I wrote about value types, which are one of the new language features that are being investigated for a future version of Java. This time I’ll explain another possible new language feature being investigated in Project Valhalla: generic specialization. In Java, you can only use reference types as...
In July last year, Brian Goetz announced Project Valhalla, an experimental project to explore major new language features for a future version of Java. Features to be investigated are: Value types Generic specialization Enhanced volatiles Possibly other related topics, such as reified generics The features in Project Valhalla are not...
As I mentioned in my previous post, interface Future in Java up to version 7 has a serious limitation, and that is that it’s not possible to get notified when the result is available. The only thing you can do with a Future is call get() on it, which will block if...
Futures are one of the many concepts that are useful for building scalable software. A future is an object that acts as a placeholder for the result of some operation that has yet to be performed. This is useful for asynchronous, non-blocking programming, which is what you want to do...