On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 11:29 -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote: > Until very recently Java actually was a very poor language to use for > network programming. It had no support whatsoever for asynchronous I/O, > forcing you to resort to threads, which won't scale if you don't use > thread pools and other more complicated abstractions.
Define "recently". It's been a while so I don't recall details, but I think I remember non-blocking socket capabilities being added to Java 1.4 in 2002. Is that what we're talking about here? Corey /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
