[PATCH] DefaultSocketImplFactory

[Roman Kennke]

Hi,

I'm trying to port the network code to the JamaicaVM. It appears that
the PlainSocketImpl (or its subclass SocksSocketImpl) that is used by
default in java.net.Socket is not really feasible to use as SocketImpl,
and I would rather be able to choose different implementations for some
platforms. However, the choice of SocksSocketImpl is hardwired in the
Socket class. I propose to do something similar as in DatagramSocket and
InetAddress, and choose the implementation based on the property
impl.prefix, using a factory class.

The exact name of the property might be different though, otherwise we
might introduce a small incompatibility, when somebody uses the
impl.prefix property (or is it used internally? that would be even
worse) then he would now also have to provide a SocketImpl for that
prefix. Maybe we should choose 'socketimpl.prefix' then?

What do you think, is such a change feasible? It would certainly make my
life a lot easier.

Cheers, Roman

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