Support Async multi-threading

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
aws, java
Domain
backend, distributed-systems

Research direction

Start with the linked Stack Overflow report and the referenced OpenTelemetry Context.java implementation to understand the missing async-thread behavior. Confirm how the Java X-Ray SDK currently handles parent and child threads; done means a child thread started after the parent completes no longer encounters a missing segment.

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Description

enhancement

Refer to stackoverflow issue.

XRay does not provide wrappers for asyn thread scenario as opentelemetry does, that causes user trouble when child thread get started later than parent thread complete.

Dominant language
Java
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Forks
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