Re: [ssm] IGMPv3/SSM API for Java ?

[Marshall Eubanks <marshall.eubanks@gmail.com>]

Well, I registered and voted for it; took about 3 minutes.

Regards
Marshall

On 4/30/05, James Lingard <James.Lingard@dataconnection.com> wrote:
> Toerless,
>=20
> I'm pretty sure you're right that there's no SSM API, though I can't conf=
irm that there's no implicit way of triggering (S,G) membership reports.  T=
he following RFE has been raised in Sun's Java bug database for this issue =
(though you may need to register in order to view this page):
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> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=3D4403551
>=20
> The standard way of encouraging Sun to get bugs fixed is for lots of peop=
le to vote for them.  See:
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> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/top25_bugs.do
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/top25_rfes.do
>=20
> I think they do actually pay attention to these.  Currently this RFE has =
only 2 votes (of which one is mine), but if we could encourage lots (i.e. >=
100) of IETF multicast folks to vote for this bug, something might happen :=
)
>=20
> Other than that, there is something called the Java Community Process (se=
e http://jcp.org/en/home/index) by which new APIs and language features are=
 often developed, although I'm no expert on how this works.
>=20
> It also seems that for the next release (J2SE 6.0), Sun are soliciting ex=
ternally contributed code (see http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArtic=
les/J2SE/peabody/).  So if there's someone out there with the time to work =
on this, this route may well be the fastest.
>=20
> Hope that helps,
> James.
>=20
> --
> James Lingard
> Data Connection Ltd (DCL)
> http://www.dataconnection.com/
>=20
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ssm-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ssm-bounces@ietf.org]On Behalf Of
> Toerless Eckert
> Sent: 30 April 2005 02:49
> To: ssm@ietf.org
> Subject: [ssm] IGMPv3/SSM API for Java ?
>=20
> Looking at
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>   http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/net/MulticastSocket.html
>=20
> it looks as if Java does NOT have any SSM API, eg: nothing like
> JoinSourceGroup(). Can anyone more aware of Java confirm this ? Or
> would any Java implementation implicitly trigger at least an IGMPv3
> INCLUDE({S},G) membership report whenever a connected datagram socket
> was bound to a group (get the source address from connect(), get the
> group from JoinGroup() ?) ... I wouldn't think so.. ?
>=20
> So, assuming the Java world has ignored SSM so far, what can be done
> to change this ? I wouldn't even know who defines the API (within ?
> outside of Sun ??)
>=20
> Thanks
>     Toerless
>=20
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