Selector API [was Re: Java API for SCTP]

[Alan Bateman]

Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:
> I am evaluating the difficulties in implementing a DCCP channel that
> can register on a selector also used by SCTP, UDP and/or TCP channels.
>   
I'm not familiar with how the socket API is used for DCCP. Would the 
usage be closer to Server/SocketChannel than DatagramChannel (although 
you are sending datagrams rather than a stream)? Another potential way 
to integrate is not to develop a new channel type but to use the 
existing APIs. A while back I prototyped changes that would allow the 
protocol be specified when creating the channel. Here that might be 
SocketChannel.open(Protocols.getByName("dccp")) and the protocol is then 
mapped to the domain and protocol.

-Alan.