Hosted by OpenJDK, the Loom project addresses limitations in the traditional Java concurrency model. In particular, it offers a lighter alternative to threads, along with new language constructs ...

This installment of Open source Java projects showcases Akka, a JVM-based toolkit and runtime that implements the actor model as message-passing paradigm. Start with a simple example, then work ...

Most of these tools are now developed through open-source projects. However, Java wasn’t always open-source. The transition began in 2006 when Sun Microsystems initiated the move toward open ...

The goal of Project Leyden is to "address the long-term pain points of Java's slow startup time, slow time to peak performance, and large footprint." It wanted to get there "by introducing a ...