With the release of Vert.x 2.0, now is the perfect time to learn about this JVM-based distributed application framework that was inspired by Node.js, but built to leverage the Java platform APIs.

If you perform a Google search for “java 7 property” you’ll discover that this topic has been widely discussed, and that ideas abound about what form the syntax should take.

JEP Draft 8303683, Virtual Threads, was submitted by Ron Pressler, architect and technical lead for Project Loom at Oracle, and Alan Bateman, architect, Java Platform Group, at Oracle this past week.