Now that DatagramSocket has been updated by JDK-8237352 to support joining multicast group, this sentence in the API class level documentation of MulticastSocket is obsolete and should be removed:
"A MulticastSocket is a (UDP) DatagramSocket, with additional capabilities for
joining "groups" of other multicast hosts on the internet."
"A MulticastSocket is a (UDP) DatagramSocket, with additional capabilities for
joining "groups" of other multicast hosts on the internet."
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JDK-8263671 Obsolete relationship in MulticastSocket API documentation.
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- Closed
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- duplicates
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JDK-8268662 Mistake in JavaDocs 16 - MulticastSocket
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- Closed
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- relates to
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JDK-8237352 Update DatagramSocket to add support for joining multicast groups
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- Resolved
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