Web Crawling in Java: A Tale of Classical Threads and Virtual Threads

A compelling narrative around web crawling in Java, contrasting classical threads with their newer counterpart: virtual threads.

Java Thread Programming (Part 1)

We write code in a file line by line, and then it gets executed. To be able to execute a piece of code requires an execution environment. In Java, a thread is an executing environment. If a program has only one executing environment, then we call this program a single-threaded program.