How to set a thread, that it will not stop program from exiting?

Just set him as a deamon:

  thread.setDaemon(true);

Tempus-fugit - library for concurrent code

The tempus-fugit library helps you write and test concurrent code.
It helps you...
Write cleaner concurrent code with less boiler plate code
Introduce determinism back into your concurrent tests
Leverage your synergies and generally be awesome

More here: http://tempusfugitlibrary.org/

The first release candidate of Tomcat 8

Read more here: http://blog.gopivotal.com/products/apache-tomcat-8-what-it-is-what-you-need-to-know

Servlet 3.0 web-fragment.xml

What it is: https://blogs.oracle.com/swchan/entry/servlet_3_0_web_fragment
Project example: https://github.com/nurkiewicz/spring-no-xml

JDK 8 Developer Preview released

Finally we hava a JDK Milestone 8 version released with Project Lambda. More info here: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/milestones#Developer_Preview

New monitoring tool in the Java JDK - Java Mission Control

Read more here: http://hirt.se/blog/?cat=3

Guava version 15 released

Se more here: https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/Release15