A new socket implementation / api

[Alan Bateman]

Noctarius wrote:
> :
> Hi Alan,
>
> it's nice to see that there was some internal discussions at SUN
> back than. Are there any plans at Oracle?
>
> To the technical part:
> I would prefer the SocketAddress type which is equivalent to the C
> apis for socket programing and so the api changes would be minimal.
> There needs to be an constructor for sockets to get the
> SocketAddress to build up the internal socket.
>
> There were changes for Java 7 to implement some new protocol stuff
> or am I wrong? Does someone has the JSR number?
>
> If there is interest I would try to write an JSR for the socket
> changes in hope that someone will help out if I have questions :).
>
>   
At some point we should go back to it but I'm not aware of any immediate 
plans. One thing that was an issue at the time was multiplexing (via the 
Selector) pipes and sockets on Windows. By "protocol stuff" then I 
assume you mean java.net.ProtocolFamily and 
java.net.StandardProtocolFamily. These were added as part of the 
multicast support in Java SE 7.

-Alan