8237896: MulticastSocket should link to DatagramChannel as an alternative for multicasting.

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Mon Jan 27 19:30:50 UTC 2020


On 27/01/2020 19:14, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please find below a doc-only fix for:
>
>
> 8237896: MulticastSocket should link to DatagramChannel as
>          an alternative for multicasting.
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8237896
>
> webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/webrev_8237896/webrev.00/
The API note for the class description looks good.

I'm less sure about the API notes added ot the joinGroup method because 
you can't get a MulticastChannel from a MulticastSocket (getChannel 
retruns null for starters). Maybe it should be just a @see instead?

-Alan


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