Scope of OpenJDK NIO

[David M. Lloyd]

On 04/30/2008 03:20 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> :
>> Here's more:
>>
>> - Selector doesn't implement Closable, despite have a "void close() 
>> throws IOException" method
>> - Other classes, like ZipFile, also have this same deficiency
> I don't think we have an RFE for Selector to implement Closeable but 
> there is one for ZipFile:
>  http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6389768
> As it has a low priority and doesn't have any votes then maybe you could 
> send a patch to core-libs-dev to try to make it happen?

Sounds good.  However, since these classes are part of the JDK, doesn't 
there need to be a JSR to make it happen?  Just sending a patch and getting 
it applied seems too easy to be true. :-)

- DML