A new socket implementation / api

[Noctarius]

Hi guys

Since I came at the point where I want to support Windows Named
Pipes and Unix Domain Sockets in some project I implemented them by
using JNA. That seems to work nice but it's sad to see that the
Socket classes in Java are designed extremly internet protocol
driven and not as generic as it would be possible to support more
types of sockets.

I came to the idea (and I guess there are a bunch of other people
out there had the same) to define a JSR for building a new socket
framework. Maybe it could be done by using nio but I'm not in deeper
thoughts about it at this point.

With this mail I would like to see if there's interest in having os
depending features like domain sockets or native pipes directly
build in Java and if there's interest in helping with definition and
implementation (if there will a JSR later on).

Like I said at the moment there are only basic ideas / thoughts how
such a new socket framework would look like and I'm glad to retrieve
any idea or statement about it.

Since I have no experience in driving a JSR as speclead it would be
nice if someone else with experience would do the job :)

Greetings from Germany,
Chris

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 6393 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Url : http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nio-discuss/attachments/20110822/21499fe9/attachment.bin