Source: thenewstack.io
Azul Proposes Java State API to Speed App Start-up Times
Java platform provider Azul has proposed a new API to help developers get around the long start-up and warm-up times for Java apps by saving the state of the runtime. Anton Kozlov, a software engineer at Azul, proposed a new API known as Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC) to the OpenJDK community.
Kozlov added that a practical way to solve these problems is to make Java applications aware of when the state is saved and restored.
The CRaC project’s goal is to deliver a Java API for coordination between application and runtime to save and restore the state,” Kozlov wrote.
In that same post, Tene said Azul’s hope is to start a project that will focus on specifying a CRaC API and to provide at least one CRaC-supporting checkpoint/restore OpenJDK implementation with the hope of eventual upstream inclusion in a future OpenJDK version via associated JEPs.
Kozlov added that a practical way to solve these problems is to make Java applications aware of when the state is saved and restored.
The CRaC project’s goal is to deliver a Java API for coordination between application and runtime to save and restore the state,” Kozlov wrote.
In that same post, Tene said Azul’s hope is to start a project that will focus on specifying a CRaC API and to provide at least one CRaC-supporting checkpoint/restore OpenJDK implementation with the hope of eventual upstream inclusion in a future OpenJDK version via associated JEPs.
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