Async networking in java

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What's the best solution for doing non blocking sockets in Java? The Socket class in and of itself doesn't support this. I'm aware of NIO but have heard rumors that's not very good or perhaps tricky to use?
I found Apache's MINA (http://mina.apache.org[^]) which looks promising, but wondered what people here have used.

Posted 18-Mar-09 5:45am

Jim Crafton

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Nagy Vilmos · Answer 1 · 2009-03-18T23:28:00

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Jim,
the easiest is to create the ServerSocket listening on it's own thread. The listening thread is blocked, but you can still call the close() method.
This will cause a SocketException to be thrown on the listening thread to allow for graceful exit.

See Class:ServerSocket[^] for details.

Posted 18-Mar-09 23:28pm

Nagy Vilmos