Got me - I don't use Oracle stuff. Take a look at the docs and examples listed in the Java documentation: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/nio/index.html
> Does Sun JVM support async IO when the OS allows it?Nope. It only supports non-blocking IO.To get asynchronous IO you can try http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/aio4j
> > Does Sun JVM support async IO when the OS allows> it?> > Nope. It only supports non-blocking IO.Not correct. See JSR's 51 and 203; also java.nio.channels.InterruptibleChannel and java.nio.channels.spi.AbstractInterruptibleChannel