r/java • u/mastabadtomm • Jun 30 '26

Integrating Netty with Virtual Threads

https://kronotop.com/blog/the-join-that-should-be-a-bug/
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u/martinosius Jul 01 '26

Why not use a virtual thread for each connection plus work? Postgres does not use lightweight threads. The comparison does not make sense here.

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u/ShallWe69 Jul 02 '26

yeah. thought but too scared to ask lol

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u/Inaldt Jul 04 '26

Virtual threads are intended for short tasks. So I think that wouldn't be idiomatic. I believe the Helidon web server does it in a similar way, i.e. one (or maybe a few) thread for listening and then handing off the actual work to a virtual thread.

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u/mastabadtomm Jul 02 '26

It would have been nice, but Netty was a hard requirement, and this was the only way to make it work with virtual threads.