Re: Adding values to enum java.net.StandardProtocolFamily

[Alan Bateman]

On 13/02/2014 15:04, Florian Weimer wrote:

Naming is fundamentally different.  With that caveat, it would be 
possible to expose a socket-based interface, but application code 
would have to adhere to the platform naming convention.

When we prototyped this in the past then we used a new SocketAddress 
type for naming. In general, this requirement has been around for a long 
time, it just has never been high priority so this is why it hasn't been 
done.

-Alan.