RE: [cp-patches] RFC: new VM interface for Socket impls

[Jeroen Frijters]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 21:16 +0000, Roman Kennke wrote:
> > Ingo has abstracted out the native code from 
> gnu.java.net.PlainSocketImpl
> > and gnu.java.net.PlainDatagramSocketImpl into a new VM 
> interface. This
> > allows VM implementors to provide a different implementation for the
> > native parts of these classes if they wish. Is this ok to 
> commit as it
> > is? Do you have any suggestions/improvements to the 
> interface? We would
> > like to have a stable VM interface for this area, so maybe 
> it would be
> > helpful to discuss this with other VM implementors...
> 
> Great idea! This is one area where there is a large divergence between
> classpath and libgcj because we never had VMClasses here. 
> IKVM also has a completely different implementation of these classes.
> So I hope Jeroen also can take a look.

This doesn't work for me and I don't see much room for improvement over
my current scheme of totally replacing Plain[Datagram]SocketImpl. There
is no common code between the generic GNU Classpath version and my
version, so I don't gain much from sharing this class (this is not a bad
thing BTW, it just means that Sun did a good job designed the SocketImpl
interface, which was after all intended to plug in different
implementations).

Regards,
Jeroen