NIO.2 Backport to JDK 6 or 5?

[Joe]

I saw a google project with some stuff in it, but it looked long
abandoned.  Only 5 revisions are in the repository, and it doesn't
really touch on the DatagramChannel with multicast support.

I had a conversation last night with the person that wrote the NIO.2
backport for IcedTea v6.  He seemed of the opinion there were too many
changes to com.sun.* to make a good backport.  He said you'd end up
repackaging too much for it to be worth it.

Here is a log of the conversation if you're interested:
https://pastee.org/4wc6x

Anyway, he was on irc.oftc.net in #openjdk.

Thanks,
Joe

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com> wrote:
> Various people at Google (including myself)
> started to work on a backport,
> but no one ever produced a useful result.
>
> Martin
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 17:44, Joe <qbproger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Any work on a backport of the NIO.2 stuff?  It'd be great to be able
>> to NIO.2 now.  I keep looking for a Multicast Channel on JDK6.  Also
>> being able to set IPv4 vs IPv6 would be great.
>>
>> Any info would be appreciated,
>> Joe
>>
>