Just another update on the effort to replace the legacy PlainSocketImpl.
The changes in the sandbox are in good shape. I spent a bit of time
comparing the behavior differences between the old and new
implementations and I haven't found anything significant so far. Sergey
Kuksenko has improved the micro benchmarks that exercise the socket APIs
and we are about the same, or slightly better, which is good.
I've drafted a JEP with all the details here:
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8218559
We will need help to test it. The Socket/ServerSocket APIs date from JDK
1.0 so it's likely there is a lot of dusty code using them. At the same
time, newer libraries and servers have moved on to to the NIO APIs or
something else. So if you have code using Socket/ServerSocket and have
cycles to try it the changes in the sandbox then it would be very useful.
-Alan
