[Fwd: Anyone tried the multicast support yet?]

[Alan Bateman]

Nord, James wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> We tested multicast with the new non SSM multicast support in NIO, and
> we have found that it performs to our expectations (windows server 2003
> SP2, server class hardware).
>
> The NIO implementation is able to handle more traffic and at a lower CPU
> load before data loss occurs.
>
> Unfortunately we do not have an SSM network to hand to test the S,G
> features.
>
> Look forward to testing the Asynchronous datagram channel
>   
Thank you for the mail. The multicast support and other updates to the 
socket-channel API were pushed to the core libs repository a few days 
ago and should be in jdk7 b36. I'll send mail once the 
AsynchronousDatagramChannel is available in an early access build.

-Alan.