Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-02-14 Severity: wishlist * Package name : libnbio-java Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Matt Welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * 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
