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> But then, is it really valid to compare between
> 'Java Class Libraries' in general?
this system is a bit stupid and not really objective.
You can't compare things which are uncomparable,
like a Swing components and J2EE components.
Who can tell me why this products has so much votes:
A. Java Date Picker has more votes then JIDEsoft(!)
B. Components! JavaBeans has 119 votes.
Although "Components! JavaBeans" sounds good,
they contains actually only Calender and Calculator!
> I have played with your Imagero (image) API a bit,
now much more features!
see http://reader.imagero.com/tutorial.html
> as that
> is of greater interest to me (I like it - very powerful),
> though I haven't had a chance to look at Unified I/O yet.
this is the I/O basis for Imagero Reader.
Makes (programmer's) life much easier.
> or your
> Unified IO does against the IBM (a heavyweight there!)
> offering 'Asynchronous IO' (are they close in functionality?) ]
no, however it is unclear why IBM offers "Asynchronous IO"
after SUN introduced NIO (which also supports non blocking IO).
Unified I/O is just a decorator over standard java I/O,
however it can gain much speed, because of intelligent buffering,
configurable memory management and (new - beta) open files management
(i.e. you can read 10000 files simultaneously,
although your OS allows to have only 2000 open files )

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Andrew Thompson - 20 Jun 2005 15:36 GMT
>> ..the IBM .. offering 'Asynchronous IO' ...
> ..it is unclear why IBM offers "Asynchronous IO"
> after SUN introduced NIO (which also supports non blocking IO).
<being a wag (as opposed to taking a WAG)>
..maybe they got a lot of votes from email's like
sue1218@noconnectionwith.ibm.com ;-)
</being a wag (as opposed to taking a WAG)>

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Andrey Kuznetsov - 20 Jun 2005 16:52 GMT
> <being a wag (as opposed to taking a WAG)>
> ..maybe they got a lot of votes from email's like
> sue1218@noconnectionwith.ibm.com ;-)
> </being a wag (as opposed to taking a WAG)>
;-)
since it is allowed to vote for own products,
IBM could win just if some of its associates vote for it

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