The Java Enterprise platform had been missing a few key features upon its inception. Those features included standard techniques for processing tasks concurrently, and standardization for batch application processing. In the release of Java EE 7, these two missing features were addressed with the addition of the Java Concurrency Utilities and Batch Processing APIs.
Each of the two APIs is quite large, and they include proven solutions that have been used by various enterprise projects for years. Using Java SE concurrency utilities such as java.util.concurrent and java.lang.Thread ...
