> > I've been working on the idea of stateful Decoders designed for use with > > non-blocking reads where buffers are read from channels and used by > > decoders. > > http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?id=13599
> How does your proposal contrast/differs/combines with what has > been referred to on this list as "streamable" codecs? > See http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19882 The streamable decoders have an interface like: public void operation(InputStream in, OutputStream out) throws Exception; which means that the calling thread is going to be blocked on I/O, whereas Alex's proposed interface is: public java.util.List operation(java.nio.ByteBuffer buffer); which is called as data arrives. The difference is pull-model (blocking I/O) vs push-model (non-blocking I/O). --- Noel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
