SocketImpl.create()

[Jean-Christophe Collet]

Roman Kennke wrote:
> I am confused how this method is supposed to work. It has a boolean
> parameter that is documented to be used to distinguish between datagram
> and stream sockets. However, it is only used by Socket and ServerSocket,
> so I guess it must always be a stream socket? But it gets worse. The
> PlainSocketImpl.create() calls socketCreate() with that parameter, where
> it is documented to be used to distinguish between server and client
> socket (is there a difference??). Looking into the native code for that
> thought, this method calls JVM_Socket() with that parameter to
> distinguish between datagram and stream sockets. Something does not fit
> here... Is this parameter used at all?
>
> Cheers,
> /Roman
>   
That parameter is a left over of a very early version of the 
Socket/SocketImpl API.
It is now obsolete mostly and was left for backward compatibility reasons.
In, short, no, it's not used anymore since all SocketImpls are now TCP 
based.