Regarding SDP support in JDK 7

[Alan Bateman]

vikas patil wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I see from the features list of open JDK 7 that there would be support for
> communication over infiniband. However at present it is going to be only for
> Solaris. Why is it not going to be supported for Linux ?
>
> Please let me know your thoughts on this. I could also contribute to the
> code if there are any such plans.
>
> Thanks,
> vikasap
>   
This is probably something you should bring up on the net-dev mailing 
list. The short answer is that shouldn't need any code changes to get 
SDP to work with any java application on Linux as it's the interposer 
library that does the protocol switching.  The only issue you might have 
is with IPv6 sockets (as the jdk uses IPv6 sockets by default when IPv6 
is enabled) . Off-hand, I can't recall if libsdp handles IPv6 sockets. 
If not, then running with -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true forces the jdk 
to use IPv4 sockets.

-Alan.