Bug#133911: ITP: libnbio-java -- NBIO: Nonblocking I/O for Java

[Ken Pronovici <pronovic@ieee.org>]

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