SCTP for Java

[Christopher Hegarty - Sun Microsystems Ireland]

On 08/26/08 14:41, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> On 08/20/2008 04:37 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> :
>>> I've been wondering for a while if it is possible (with reasonable
>>> additional effort) to add new socket and socket address classes without
>>> patching the JDK sources.
> 
> No, it's not. :-)
> 
>> FWIW, a while back I prototyped an "in tree" solution for 
>> SocketChannel. The primary motive was to allow for Sockets Direct 
>> Protocol (which uses IP addressing) and Unix Domain Sockets (which 
>> required a new SocketAddress type).
> 
> I disagree here.  Just because C has traditionally used struct sockaddr 
> in an overloaded fashion doesn't mean it's a good idea to mirror this on 
> the Java side.
Sorry David, I'm sure what you mean here. Can you please clarify.

-Chris.

> 
> - DML