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Re: what's the point of java.nio?

From: Bart Locanthi <bart at sabl dot com>
To: Adam Megacz <megacz at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 21:38:20 -0700
Subject: Re: what's the point of java.nio?
References: <m1u0xx71ka.fsf@nowhere.com> <40BAA887.8060700@sabl.com> <m1d64l6wuq.fsf@nowhere.com>

don't get me started on the design of sun's java libraries..

Adam Megacz wrote:

Bart Locanthi <bart@sabl.com> writes:

* scatter/gather i/o


Hrm, okay, this sort of makes sense.  But couldn't they just have made
InputStream take an array of byte[]'s (a byte[][])?

* platform-independent adjustable byte ordering


IMHO all this requires is two new methods on each of the numeric
wrapper classes:

 Integer.fromLittleEndian(byte[], int offset)
 Integer.fromBigEndian(byte[], int offset)

- a

References:
- what's the point of java.nio?
  - From: Adam Megacz
- Re: what's the point of java.nio?
  - From: Bart Locanthi
- Re: what's the point of java.nio?
  - From: Adam Megacz

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