a socket impl question?

[Alan Bateman]

On 13/01/2013 08:22, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> :
>>
>> More generally, is there a general way to pass a non
>> StandardSocketOptions option
>> the down to the socket fd without having to go through the JNI path on
>> Windows?
>
>
> Not that I am aware of.
Just to add to Chris's comment. You can develop your own 
SelectorProvider implementation that supports socket options beyond 
those defined by StandardSocketOptions. These are usable with channels 
that implement NetworkChannel via the setOption/getOption methods. So as 
should be clear, the provider implementation needs to support the 
extended socket options first, this is not an API that allows you to 
pass in arbitrary socket options without mapping.

At this time, the classic networking APIs (java.net.Socket) don't define 
APIs that take a SocketOption but one could envisage adding them in the 
future.

-Alan

PS: I think follow-ups should be sent to net-dev.