Proposal for a new I/O library design

[Sven Panne]

Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
> You certainly can't always mmap the whole file into memory at once (on a
> 32-bit architecture at least), because: [...]

I think all these issues are handled by java.nio.Buffer and friends. Are
there any people on this list with real-world war stories about java.nio?
So far I had a look at those packages from an implementation perspective only...

Cheers,
    S.