what's the point of java.nio?

Mon May 31 04:30:00 GMT 2004

also important are
* scatter/gather i/o
* platform-independent adjustable byte ordering
Adam Megacz wrote:
>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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