what's the point of java.nio?

[Bart Locanthi]

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

Adam Megacz wrote:

>Bart Locanthi <bart@sabl.com> writes:
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>>* scatter/gather i/o
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>Hrm, okay, this sort of makes sense.  But couldn't they just have made
>InputStream take an array of byte[]'s (a byte[][])?
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>>* platform-independent adjustable byte ordering
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>IMHO all this requires is two new methods on each of the numeric
>wrapper classes:
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>  Integer.fromLittleEndian(byte[], int offset)
>  Integer.fromBigEndian(byte[], int offset)
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>  - a
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