On Nov 13, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Patrick Reinhart <patr...@reini.net> wrote:
> Hi there, > > In the followup of a BOF with Stephen Colebourne with his ideas of small > library changes that may could get in JDK9. As of the fact that in the > codebase of my company there are several locations where we copy from/to IO > stream over and over again using either external libraries or do it by > ourselves, I suggested to have some support for easy coping data between > Input-/OutputStream or Reader/Writer without having to use to external > libraries. > > I’m looking forward to your opinions upon this proposal. +1, in my projects that I have open in Eclipse right now there are no fewer than six different implementations of this - Guava, commons-io, two homegrown that do things slightly differently, and on and on... Everyone needs to do it and it feels like a great addition.
