what's the point of java.nio?

Mon May 31 04:21:00 GMT 2004

Oh yeah, and CharSequence, which I admit is a really, really good idea.
 - a
Adam Megacz <adam@megacz.com> writes:
> Er, I must be a dunce or something. I've read through all the nio
> introductions I can find, and I still can't figure out why Sun
> introduced an entire package instead of two methods:
>> static InputStream InputStream.select(InputStream[])
> static boolean Socket.nonBlockingConnect()
>> It looks like given these two functions I could implement all of
> java.nio on top of java.io. And the converse (io on nio) is certainly
> true (libgcj does it).
>> So the only conclusion I'm left with is that it's somehow easier to
> implement the native method support for nio more efficiently, but I
> can't see how that is the case.
>> Can anybody clue me in?
>> - a
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 great disturbance in the Force: it was as if a billion washing
 machinces all became unbalanced at once and were suddenly silenced."
 -- anonymous book reviewer on Amazon.com