Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On 8/20/2024 9:18 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:15:03 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

The java.io package may seem a bit complex, but it makes perfect sense
when you learn the structure.

 Until you try to include niceties like select/poll. Then you get into a
whole mess of extra classes/methods.
 I suppose, given its origin in the 1990s, the Java designers thought all
nonblocking I/O should be handled through threads ...

That stuff is not in java.io but in java.nio and added
in Java 1.4 (2002).
Not that many classes, but a totally different set of classes.
Arne