UNIX select() equivalent in Java for polling multiple sockets - Java

captain_oldfield wrote:
>
> I am struggling to find any information on how Java can be made to
> poll multiple sockets in a single thread. In variants of UNIX this is
> simply done via the select() call.
>
> Can anyone provide any links to tutorials/information explaining how
> this is done? I did come across information on the SocketChannel &
> Selector classes somewhere, but unfortunately I lost the link I do
> remember there was something particular about version 1.4 &
> onwards....

They keyword is nio.

There are lots of hits on Google. Including:

http://www.owlmountain.com/tutorials/NonBlockingIo.htm
http://rox-xmlrpc.sourceforge.net/niotut/index.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/...ple/index.html
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ja...rary/j-javaio/

Arne