Java Question

[Paul Osman]

On 6-Apr-06, at 1:19 AM, Randy Jonasz wrote:

> Anyone know if Java supports the select function that C has?  i.e. use
> FD_SET etc to wait on an array of file descriptors for
> read,write,exception events.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Randy

Hi Randy,

Java doesn't have a select() function per say, but afaik you can use  
the java.nio.channels.Selector class to do I/O multiplexing. Here's a  
link:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/09/01/nio.html

Cheers,
Paul
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