AF_UNIX Sockets Implementation based on GNU-Classpath

[Norbert Frese]

hi!

i have just started to write a library to connect to unix-domain-sockets 
(AF_UNIX) based on your java.net library. (thanks to the people who the 
people who worked on this!)

has nobody tried to write a library for this purpose before? i was not able 
to find any solution for this problem on the internet. i might need this 
for some personal project, but maybe AF_UNIX sockets would be an 
interesting java-feature for a lot of people (jdbc-drivers, component 
systems like openoffice uno...)

it seems to be hard (or impossible?) to map an api for non_ip sockets into 
the java.net api. maybe you have some ideas and help me improving it.

it is designed to run on any jvm as 'stand-alone' library (i have developed 
it with sun-jdk 1.4.0 on linux). it's still very experimental  - and i have 
cut away a lot of (important?) things from your java.net library - just to 
make it compile quickly. (only streams work and you can't set socket 
options yet)

if you like it - maybe would it make sense to integrate it into your cvs as 
gnu-classpath extension (when it is more mature).

you can download it (including demos) from:
http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/java_local_socket.tar.gz

with kind regards
norbert