I expect scoped variables that will be introduced with Loom to replace MDC
attached to threads.

On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 8:41 PM Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Java 19 is coming out soon, and that includes a preview version of virtual
> threads and structured concurrency APIs. While I’m not that familiar with
> the Java implementation, I’d imagine it’ll have some similarities with
> Kotlin coroutines and other similar structured concurrency libraries.
>
> I’ve played around with the general concept myself, particularly an
> interesting Python library for the same. I think some sort of structured
> concurrency architecture would be useful for making some async aspects of
> Log4j easier to understand (mostly the areas where we spawn threads for
> things, not for async logging). While the API isn’t stable, we can abstract
> it well enough with multi version jars. What I’m more curious about is how
> we’d interact (if at all) with virtual threads, coroutines, or structured
> concurrency APIs in general. If an app uses structured concurrency
> throughout, it might want the logging system to participate in the same
> flow for clean shutdowns.
>
> Does anyone have any more concrete use cases that might be relevant for
> us? Or does this seem more relevant for networking libraries and frameworks?
>
> —
> Matt Sicker

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