Re: [Rails-devel] Starting on a client/server

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

Brett Lentz wrote:
> It seems that java.nio.SocketChannel is probably a better choice than
> java.net.Socket. It seems like it's easier to manage multiple connections to
> the same port more easily with a SocketChannel.  I'm new to this part of the
> Java API, but that's my first impression.
>   
I think the only real difference is the buffering is more efficient in 
nio, but in either case I think you want a higher level API that can 
encapsulate same-machine via synchronized queues, between machines with 
sockets, between machines with some multicast protocol, etc.

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