Paul Libbrecht wrote at Mittwoch, 8. April 2009 11:17: > > Hello commons list, > > one thing I keep seeing around is people exchanging either too big > strings, byte-arrays, or stringbuffers. It looks like, they one has > still not found something sensible that describes something close to > an array of characters so: > > - that can give its length > - that can be read and re-read > - with a variant can be changed to (e.g. with a writer) > > but something that is flexible enough so that: > > - it does not reserve a block of contiguous bytes in RAM! > - it scales pretty big > - maybe it even has regions mapped into file > > where should I look for such a family of objects? > Commons-IO could be such maybe? > > paul > > PS: last I looked, many many many people serialize massive document as > XML, that is good, but they exchange that XML as string!
Have a look at the different ImageInputStream/ImageOutputStream implementations. In fact, they don't have to be used for images only ;-) - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
