Name: yw38858 Date: 11/11/99


Provide a standard set of Java functionality which reflects the typical
Asynchroneous I/O functionality now provided by most operating systems. In this
design, the Java application can set up a number of Read or Write operations for
a series of connections, which are completed asynchroneously by the system. The
application is informed when the operations are complete.

This feature is especially important for server side Java to avoid creating too
many threads to handle I/O.
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