setSoTimeout of a Socket and Java NIO (CodingClues)

Jul
9

setSoTimeout of a Socket and Java NIO

MarkusJava

A stupid thing about Java NIO and using blocking sockets is that the SO_TIMEOUT is not used anymore even if you set it. You may wonder why anyone will use blocking sockets with NIO? I am doing this in p300 because I want to use the increased performance of using FileChannel.transferFrom.

However, switching to nonblocking IO is not that hard. You can use one Selector per SocketChannel and select() for OP_READ or OP_WRITE before every read or write. This way you can do a select call and specify the timeout in msecs as a parameter

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