> Am 13.11.2014 um 20:59 schrieb Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com>: > > On 13/11/2014 19:31, Patrick Reinhart 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. >> > Long overdue. I remember we prototyped methods like this (and much more) > during JDK 7 but didn't do enough at the time to actually get them in. We did > include a bunch of easy to use methods in the Files class at the time, > including copy between input/output streams and files, but we didn't > introduce an IOUtils or such class in java.io.
I did some implementation of a IOUtils class for the basic copy task already. Should I post a patch with the work I already done? Best regards, Patrick