Better alternative for PipedReader/PipedWriter?

Question

I need to have a buffered char stream, into which I write in one thread and from which I read in another thread. Right now I\'m using PipedReader and PipedWriter fo

Answer 1

It should be fairly easy to wrap a char stream API around BlockingQueue.

I must say, however, it seems quite perverse that PipedReader would use polling to wait for data. Is this documented somewhere, or did you discover it for yourself somehow?