How can I implement an AsyncSocket in java (specificaly on android)?
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you mean something like, http://code.google.com/p/cocoaasyncsocket/ ? – sbridges Apr 30 '11 at 14:43
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@sbridges yes! I have used this library successfully in an iphone app. – Alex1987 Apr 30 '11 at 14:51
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If you want to do non blocking io in java without having 1 or more threads per socket, you have to use the java NIO libraries. There are some wrappers around NIO that make it easier to use, netty is a good example.
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I'll look into it. Too bad there is no simple solution for it in java. – Alex1987 Apr 30 '11 at 17:25
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@Alex1987: It's a complex problem. You can't express it simply. NB NIO is not Async as conventionally understood, i.e. where the operation continues in parallel and you get a completion notification: it is non-blocking, meaning that only the part of the operation that can be completed without blocking, e.g. to/from the socket buffers, actually occurs. Not the same thing. IBM had an implementation of async sockets at one time but it was bound to Windows. – user207421 May 01 '11 at 04:36