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I'm very happy to release Velai into the open-source community. I hope that others may find it useful.
Velai started as a collection of utility classes within one of my pet projects. I have been using threads extensively in that project - creating lots of independent tasks customised to a particular item of work within a data processing pipeline. The extent to which I'm using threads there made me want something that was quick and easy to set up. Even with the Java 6 java.util.concurrent API, creating a task that can be started and stopped and monitored for its progress requires a lot of boilerplate code.... read more