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Implementing Apache Portable Runtime on Grizzly?

From: Outside - Karl's ACM <kpauls_at_acm.org>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 13:09:42 -0700

Hi everyone,

I'm curious if anyone else here might be interested in implementing APR for Grizzly.

My reasons for investigating this is are admittedly slightly contradictory to some community goals:
* in a very few cases APR offers better feature portability on certain operating systems (i.e. kqueue on BSD)
* APR may allow experimenting with networking technologies in advance of their JVM implementation

Both of these could also be accomplished by experimenting with OpenJDK, but I think APR could be a better target for bringing these changes to production environments in some situations.

I think I have some idea of where to begin with this, but wanted to get community feedback.

-karl