On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 11:51 -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> I'm pretty sure async i/o didn't show up until Java 5 (1.5). I don't
> believe 1.4 had it natively. Bryan can set us straight on this. Of
> course if wasn't in the language until 1.5, this is very significant
> because many programming houses still standardize on Java 1.4.
It looks like it was added in Java 1.4.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/09/04/nio.html
For my money's worth (and I don't code a lot) I wouldn't choose Java for
network programming. It's so verbose with so many layers of indirection.
I would pick Perl, but that's just because that's what I know best.
Corey
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