Name: yw38858 Date: 11/11/99



Add Socket Factory APIs to separate the action of choosing a socket and protocol
type from the action of creating sockets. This is a simple framework that will
enable flexible socket support in other Java 2 Platform and standard extension APIs and implementations and will allow for 3rd party socket extensions to be cleanly plugged in through socket factory handlers.

Among the problems this APIs addresses are: ablility to create unconnected
sockets; create tunnelled sockets; have pluggable protocol family so as to
support multiple protocols, for instance ICMP and RAW, which enable us and the
users to create portable network management tools.
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