Just a quick summary on where we are on this effort.
I've submitted the JEP [1] so it can be considered for the roadmap.
There wasn't any additional feedback from the draft that I sent here in
February.
In the mean-time, the "preparatory" changes have been pushed to jdk/jdk:
JDK-8220493: Prepare Socket/ServerSocket for alternative platform SocketImpl
JDK-8221259: New tests for java.net.Socket to exercise long standing
behavior
JDK-8220738: (sc) Move ServerSocketChannelImpl remaining native method
to Net
JDK-8217500: (sc) Move SocketChannelImpl's remaining native methods to Net
JDK_8221252: (sc) SocketChannel and its socket adaptor need to handle
connection reset
JDK-8217461: (sc) Add Net.available to return the number of bytes in the
socket input buffer
JDK-8217451: ExtendedSocketOptions should encapsulate support for
SO_FLOW_SLA
JDK-8219446: Specify behaviour of timeout accepting methods of Socket
and ServerSocket if timeout is negative
and the CSR [2] has been removed to "Provisional".
Getting the enabling changes pushed in advance means the changes are
significantly reduced and are mostly one class with the new
implementation. A snapshot of the patch from the niosocketimpl-branch is
here:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8221481/0/webrev/index.html
If the JEP becomes a candidate then then changes will need Reviewers. We
will also need to decide on the system property to configure the JDK to
use the legacy implementation. At this time, you can run with
-Djdk.net.usePlainSocketImpl=true to use the legacy PlainSocketImpl. It
probably not wroth spending time on anything more sophisticated.
In addition to the above patch, the niosocketimpl-branch has updates to
several existing socket tests to run them a second time with
-Djdk.net.usePlainSocketImpl. I left them out of the above snapshot to
avoid clutter as it's a one-line to each test description. As documented
in the JEP, the motive is to avoid the legacy implementation bit rotting
before it is removed. The niosocketimpl-branch also has Sergey
Kuksenko's updates to the socket micros which may make it to the main
line in advance of the changes.
-Alan.
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8218559
[2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8222028
