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

[Toerless Eckert <eckert@cisco.com>]

Thanks. Registered and voted.

Is it actually possible to leave comments in that bug too ? I
tried to on the "Comments" place, but it just responded with
"We encountered an unexpected error. Please try back again. "
The page also says "Welcome, null" ... *sigh*

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 12:34:19PM +0100, James Lingard wrote:
> Toerless,
> 
> I'm pretty sure you're right that there's no SSM API, though I can't confirm that there's no implicit way of triggering (S,G) membership reports.  The 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):
> 
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4403551
> 
> The standard way of encouraging Sun to get bugs fixed is for lots of people to vote for them.  See:
> 
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/top25_bugs.do
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/top25_rfes.do
> 
> 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 :)
> 
> Other than that, there is something called the Java Community Process (see 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.
> 
> It also seems that for the next release (J2SE 6.0), Sun are soliciting externally contributed code (see http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/peabody/).  So if there's someone out there with the time to work on this, this route may well be the fastest.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> James.
> 
> -- 
> James Lingard
> Data Connection Ltd (DCL)
> http://www.dataconnection.com/

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