NIO Concepts: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 9: | Line 9: | ||
=ByteBuffer= | =ByteBuffer= | ||
=Channel= | |||
A channel represents an open connection to an entity such as a hardware device, a file, a network socket or a program component that is capable of performing one or more distinct I/O operations - for example reading or writing. | |||
A channel is either opened or closed. A channel is open upon creation and once closed it remains closed. | |||
Chanel are in general intended to be safe for multithreaded access. | |||
Revision as of 04:53, 19 January 2016
Internal
Buffer
java.nio.Buffer is a linear, finite sequence of elements of a specific primitive type. Networking software uses ByteBuffers.
ByteBuffer
Channel
A channel represents an open connection to an entity such as a hardware device, a file, a network socket or a program component that is capable of performing one or more distinct I/O operations - for example reading or writing.
A channel is either opened or closed. A channel is open upon creation and once closed it remains closed.
Chanel are in general intended to be safe for multithreaded access.