You are confusing coroutines and virtual threads. Afaik you can try to use virtual thread pool, question is how much synchronization is camel using under the hood.
On Fri, 1 Sept 2023, 10:34 ski n, <raymondmees...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, thanks. It will take some (couple of years) before most libraries are > catching up. > > At least, Spring Boot will already support Java 21 with virtual threads in > their next release ( > https://spring.io/blog/2023/08/24/spring-boot-3-2-0-m2-available-now). I > don't know exactly how they do it, but they ship Spring as a multi release > Jar for this purpose. When running Spring on Java 21 you can enable it ( > > https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/wiki/Spring-Boot-3.2.0-M1-Release-Notes#support-for-virtual-threads > ). > > I was thinking more or less in the same lines for Camel. For most of the > cases the underlying libraries needs to be updated, but for some stuff like > Seda or Stream caching this may already work from within the libraries own > code. > > Raymond > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 9:36 AM Claus Ibsen <claus.ib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > No plan for virtual threads - this relies on 3rd party libraries and many > > other frameworks starting to adopt them as well, which means Java 21 as > > minimum base version. > > Support for Java 21 is to run on JDK21. JDK17 will be primary supported, > > and 21 secondary, that is the plan for this year. > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 9:34 AM ski n <raymondmees...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > In integration there is a lot of Async I/O (calling disk, databases, > > api's > > > and other external systems). Though Camel is very fast, it's mostly > these > > > async I/O calls that take time and eat a lot of platform threads. > > > > > > For example: > > > > > > from("direct:start") > > > .log("some log") //this takes less than 1 ms > > > .setHeader(Exchange.HTTP_URI, constant("http://someapi";)) //this > takes > > > less than 1 ms > > > .to("http://someapi";) //this takes 3 seconds > > > .setHeader("Result","Done") //this takes less than 1 ms > > > .to("sql://insertindatabase") //this takes less than 1 seconds > > > ; > > > > > > One solution to this is using virtual threads. They are already part of > > > Kotlin (coroutines), but now coming to Java as well in Java 21 (release > > > 19th September). > > > > > > In the Camel 4 blog "What's new" it states that: > > > > > > "We plan to support Java 21 on next LTS released by the end of this > > year." > > > > > > Camel next LTS release (4.2) is expected around December. > > > > > > I was wondering what the plans here are with supporting virtual > threads? > > > Will they part of 4.2 or planned for later? > > > > > > Raymond > > > > > > > > > -- > > Claus Ibsen > > ----------------- > > @davsclaus > > Camel in Action 2: https://www.manning.com/ibsen2 > > >
