[jdom-interest] Bit masks in ContentFilter

[Noam Tamim]

--- Jason Hunter <jhunter at servlets.com> wrote:
> Playing devil's advocate for a second, they use bitmasks in the brand
> spanking New I/O library.  So new it has New in the name.  :-)
> Look at the SelectableChannel.register(x, y, OP_ACCEPT) call where
> OP_ACCEPT is an int in a bitmask.  All around selectors you need to do
> bitmask work.  I don't think Sun's treating it like a relic from C.

Now that you mention it, there's another place in the API where bitmasking is
used: Reflection. Just look at the java.lang.reflect.Modifier class.


=====
Noam.

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