SCTP for Java

[David M. Lloyd]

On 08/26/2008 09:20 AM, Christopher Hegarty - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote:
> On 08/26/08 14:41, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> On 08/20/2008 04:37 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>>> 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.

I just mean, what would be the benefit of using SocketAddress rather than 
using a String or Path directly?  You can avoid the difficulties of 
extending SocketAddress by simply not using it.

- DML