For those who haven't experienced the joys of java.nio yet, I highly recomend it. Not only do you get performance advantages, but it's easier to use, too, in my opinion.
Speaking of which... If I have a servlet which I want to use to send a file straight from disk to the browser, right now it seems like the best way to do that is to get a FileChannel for the file, read it into a buffer, and send that buffer out to the outputstream from Request.getOutputStream(). It seems that it would be much nicer and more efficient if there were a Request.getChannel() type of method, so I could use the highly-efficient FileChannel.transferTo() method. Using that method, the file could be transfered straight from the disk to the network, possibly never leaving kernel space and possibly never being copied (depending on OS). Perhaps Tomcat could serve static content as quickly as its native C competitors (Apache). Is this something which might appear in future releases of the Servlet API? I hope so. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
