SCTP with Netty -- possible?

Holger Hoffstätte holger.hoffstaette at googlemail.com
Wed Sep 9 14:14:11 EDT 2009


Piotr Findeisen wrote:
> There seem to be some Java APIs for SCTP protocol, but non of them looks
> "official".
> Is it actually possible to use Netty with SCTP?

SCTP is more than just a user-level protocol and requires support from
both the OS (obviously) and the JVM. AFAIK this is scheduled to arrive in
JDK7. So a Netty codec, handler etc. alone would not suffice.
That's all I know after I stopped investigating it - for now. :)

Holger


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