Re: UNIX like select() for Java!

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From: Robert Kroes
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 00:00

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Eric Hodges wrote:

> Mark Frazier wrote:
> >
> > > The xware.net.Selector class provides an event-driven mechanism for
> > > handling input from
> > > multiple sockets. It is ideal for writing server like Java applets or
> > > applications. It can be used
> > > on both the client or server side of your sockets based interface.
> >
> > Thanks for this.
> >
> > However, isn't more "java like" to take the approach of
> > running every socket in a new thread? I've done this in
> > Java servers. You start up a Java server socket, and everytime
> > you get a connection, you run a new thread which is a class
> > that serves only that socket. The code is pretty trivial.
>
> Yeah, I'm not sure why anyone would want to go back to select().  That
> always seemed like a hack to deal with asynchronous notification in a
> single threaded environment.

I would like to "third" that motion if I may :-) I've had great success with
the multiple thread approach and personally find it a more elegant
solution... Threads are so easy to use in Java. All reads block anyway so
there really isn't any overhead. When there _is_ activity the workload is
divided up nicely according to thread priority.

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From: Robert Kroes <rk@labyrinth.net.au>
Subject: Re: UNIX like select() for Java!
Date: 1997/12/18
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