NOTE

This project has been moved to github. Klaus Trainer will not maintain this project anymore. New project maintainer is Dan McKinley. See http://github.com/mcfunley/juds for the new project home page.

JUDS

JUDS (Java Unix Domain Sockets) provide classes to address the need in Java for accessing Unix domain sockets.

The source is provided for a shared library containing the compiled native C code, which is called into by the Java UnixDomainSocket classes via JNI (Java Native Interface) to open, close, unlink (delete), read, and write to Unix domain sockets.

JUDS consists of an abstract class UnixDomainSocket and two derived classes, UnixDomainSocketClient and UnixDomainSocketServer. It can simply be used by instantiating one of the two classes. Through the getInputStream and getOutputStream methods, the resulting instance can be used to get an InputStream and/or OutputStream object.

Getting Started

-> For instructions how to install JUDS, see the README file.

-> For an example how to use JUDS, see TestUnixDomainSocket.java.

Unix domain sockets vs. internet sockets

This mailing list posting explains briefly the main differences of Unix domain sockets and internet sockets. In doing so, it touches both application level and kernel level aspects.

Differences regarding

• level of abstraction
• complexity
• security and
• performance