[Adium-devl] Java-based libraries... a ponder, a thought, an apology

[Andre-John Mas]

On 7-Dec-06, at 21:31 , Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> In the length of my email, one point got lost, I believe, based on  
> your reply, Graham:
>> the advantages of switching to other libraries have grown smaller  
>> in the meantime.  Mark Doliner has refactored and reorganized the  
>> libgaim OSCAR prpl <snip>  It is now clean enough to support  
>> future development.  Its AIM file transfer and direct connect are  
>> quite reliable now.
>
> which is to say that the file transfer / direct connect advantage  
> of joscar over libgaim is no longer nearly as significant.
>
> On Dec 7, 2006, at 9:01 PM, Graham Booker wrote:
>
>>> 2) Client-side rate limiting management, which among other things  
>>> allows rapid retrieval of away messages at sign-on
>>
>> I have considered actually implementing this in the past, but you  
>> seem to indicate below that it is there now.  There is one strange  
>> thought that nags at the back of my mind.  If this were  
>> implemented along with non-blocking IO (which I have implemented  
>> as well), then there is a buffer after the rate-limiting.  In  
>> certain network conditions, that buffer can negate the rate- 
>> limiting.  I do have to admit, this is a minor issue, especially  
>> since joscar has the same kind of non-blocking IO inside it.
> That's an interesting point.  As a side note, joscar does *not*  
> have the same kind of non-blocking IO, as apparently non-blocking  
> sockets are difficult to work with in Java.  Instead, a thread runs  
> for each OSCAR connection, and a dedicated queue manager uses it to  
> send in a non-blocking fashion.

With the advent of Java NIO, I think non-blocking IO is definitely  
available for Java.

Andre