Friday, January 10, 2003

More NIO

JSR 203 is basically what Sun didn't get finished for 1.4's version of NIO. This is to be released in Java 1.5.

"Its major components will be:

1. A new filesystem interface that supports bulk access to file attributes, escape to filesystem-specific APIs, and a service-provider interface for pluggable filesystem implementations;

2. An API for asynchronous (as opposed to polled, non-blocking) I/O operations on both sockets and files; and

3.The completion of the socket-channel functionality defined in JSR-51, including the addition of support for binding, option configuration, and multicast datagrams."

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