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An Example

Using Pipes to Communicate between Threads

Sometimes the communication requirements between threads is quite simple. Take, for example, the case where the producer creates a stream of characters and the consumer reads and processes that stream.

Java has a convenient set of Piped classes that provide the support for just such a circumstance:

• PipedReader and PipedWriter, for text data
• PipedInputStream and PipedOutputStream, for non-text data