Bug#133911: ITP: libnbio-java -- NBIO: Nonblocking I/O for Java
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-02-14
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : libnbio-java
Version : 1.4
Upstream Author : Matt Welsh <mdw@cs.berkeley.edu>
* URL : http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mdw/proj/java-nbio/
* License : BSD-style
Description : NBIO: Nonblocking I/O for Java
This library implements nonblocking I/O facilities for
Java. Surprisingly, the standard JDK libraries (as of JDK 1.3) do
not provide nonblocking I/O. This means that in order to implement
applications (such as web servers and other Internet services) which
support many concurrent I/O streams, a large number of threads must
be used. However, the overhead of threading (in Java, as well as more
generally) limits the performance of such an implementation. What is
needed is a nonblocking I/O library which allows a small number of
threads to be used, along with a select() or poll() like mechanism to
test for incoming I/O events on a large number of streams. That
mechanism is what this library provides.
I have been working with Takashi Okamoto to package this. The .deb
is complete.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux skyjammer 2.2.19pre17 #1 Tue Mar 13 22:37:59 EST 2001 i586
Locale: LANG=en, LC_CTYPE=en_US
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