Java NIO Pipe vs BlockingQueue

Question

I just discovered that just has an NIO facility, Java NIO Pipe that\'s designed for passing data between threads. Is there any advantage of using this mechanism over the more co

Answer 1

I believe a NIO Pipe was designed so that you can send data to a channel inside the selector loop in a thread safe way, in other words, any thread can write to the pipe and the data will be handled in the other extreme of the pipe, inside the selector loop. When you write to a pipe you make the channel in the other side readable.