Writing Async(Or async like) Client Socket Code in Java

Question

I am writing a socket client for interacting with a network service. Currently because I want to support async reading and writing I am threading both the output stream and the input stream of one socket, but I was wondering if there is a better way to do this. I have taken a look at Java NIO and was not very impressed, and I also looked at Mina, but was wondering if anyone had any better ideas.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Apart from Mina and NIO there are a couple of other libraries (all generally built on top of NIO)

• xSocket
• Netty
• Grizzly
• Also JDK 7 is adding support for Async IO