Re: [tcljava-dev] Socket stuff - good time to improve?

[Neil M. <ne...@cs...>]

Neil Madden wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> OK - my exams are over, and I have some time to look again at my socket
> code in Jacl. It needs some work. After the messages a while ago about
> common functionality in the Channel class, is now a good time for me to
> review the socket code and try and finish it off? i.e. - is the Channel
> class in a finished state? Also, what is the model for integrating with
> fconfigure, fileevent etc? Has work begun on fileevent?

I've looked at the new async I/O in Java 1.4, and I think it will be
much more useful than the current synchronous Java I/O (reminds me quite
a lot of a long-winded way of doing what Jacl does for I/O anyway).
However, the calls and classes involved are completely different (for
both async and synchronous I/O). So, how should I go about this? I think
I'm going to try and implement asynchronous I/O just using the current
stuff and Threads for the time being, and then I can think about 1.4. I
think the best way to get 1.4 IO would be to use conditional execution
to decide which SocketChannel implementation to load, as it would
probably have to go into a separate class (it's a rewrite of the entire
thing for the new APIs). Is anyone thinking of using the new APIs for
file IO?

Thoughts?

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Neil.
> 
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