blahblahblahh mentioned that I should start a post on some of the Pipe information that I have.
Rather than regurgitate the information here, I will point you to some relevant links:
http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000071.html
http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000070.html
http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000069.html
from the main entry:
http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000067.html
(so that you get some motivation as to why I did all of this).
There is some code concerning Pipes available at:
http://www.realityinteractive.com/software/oss/index.html
in the “NIO converter to faciliate SSL”. Look in “test-java/com/realityinteractive/nio/io”. Specifically PipeTest.java and PipeCapabilitiesTest.java.
I hope this is helpful!