Concurrency ‒ Virtual Threads and Structured Concurrency: Diving Deeper

This chapter includes 18 problems meant to dive deep into how virtual threads and structured concurrency work and how they should be used in your applications.

If you don’t have a background in concurrency in Java then I strongly recommend postponing this chapter until you read some good introductory coverage on this topic. For instance, you could try out Chapter 10 and Chapter 11 from Java Coding Problems, First Edition.

We start this chapter by explaining how virtual threads work internally. This will be helpful to help you better understand the subsequent problems about extending and assembling StructuredTaskScope, hooking ThreadLocal and virtual threads, avoiding pinning, solving producer-consumer problems, implementing an HTTP web server, and so on.

By the end of this chapter, you’ll have comprehensive and crystal-clear knowledge about working with virtual threads and structured...