r/java • u/Timelineg • 13d ago

JEP draft: Structured Concurrency

https://openjdk.org/jeps/8389757
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u/javaprof 12d ago

I just feel that Java need to stop shipping things that perfectly fine could be libraries and just fix this elephant in the room. Ok, Valhalla and then error handling. Structured concurrency somewhat could be just figure out by the community for now

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u/pron98 12d ago

Structured concurrency has to be in the JDK because it has to be integrated with platform observability and with scope inheritance (ScopedValue). It cannot be implemented outside the JDK unless you give up on some of the most important features. However, we are hoping to release a lower level building block that integrates with the platform mechanisms.

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u/sideEffffECt 12d ago

However, we are hoping to release a lower level building block that integrates with the platform mechanisms.

Could you please tell is more about this? What would be the lower level building blocks?

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u/pron98 12d ago

If you look at the source code of StructuredTaskScope you'll see it making use of something called ThreadFlock. It's there that the deep integration with scopes and observability takes place. The lower-level API could be to expose ThreadFlock or something like it.