Future with Virtual threads
Introduction We are gonna look at how to use virtual threads with a future. Doing this requires only a couple lines of code. A future makes it is easy to return a value from a (virtual) thread.
Future with a virtual thread Creating a future from a virtual thread is done by using the newVirtualThreadPerTaskExecutor. Since Java 21 the ExecutorService now implements the autocloseable interface which means that we can use it with the try-with-resource statement.