Java - Reading from a buffered reader (from a socket) is pausing the thread

Question

I have a thread that reads characters from a Buffered reader (created from a socket as follows):

inputStream = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(clien         


        

Answer 1

java.io.InputStream.read() is a blocking call, which means if no data is available the thread halts until data becomes available.

For non-blocking I/O, use classes from the java.nio package.