what's the point of java.nio?

Mon May 31 14:28:00 GMT 2004

Adam Megacz wrote:
>Oh yeah, and CharSequence, which I admit is a really, really good idea.
>>- and memory mapped files.
- and I'm sure that you will see in an upcoming version TRUE 
asynchronous IO,
 and that cannot be implemented with byte[] since byte arrays can be moved
 by the garbage collector.
- NativeByteBuffer is also great to talk to C code, to hardware drivers 
and such.
Cedric