Network event listener?

[Neil Cherry]

I have to modifiy a program which uses a serial interface and event
listeners. The modification entails adding support for connecting to a
terminal server via an IP address and port number instead of the com
port. Is it possible (reasonable?) to create a network event listener?
From what I've been able to google that it may not possible or
reasonable to do. Is there some other way to accomplish the same thing
without rewriting the entire program?

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[Randolf Richardson]

"Neil Cherry <nj*@wolfgang.uucp>" wrote in comp.lang.java:

I have to modifiy a program which uses a serial interface and event
listeners. The modification entails adding support for connecting to a
terminal server via an IP address and port number instead of the com
port. Is it possible (reasonable?) to create a network event listener?
From what I've been able to google that it may not possible or
reasonable to do. Is there some other way to accomplish the same thing
without rewriting the entire program?

I will be starting some TCP socket programming in Java later on this
year, and the direction I would look for a solution is something that works
very much like a BSD Socket "select()" function.

I took a quick look at the Java API documentation on Sun's web site for
this, but didn't find anything -- perhaps I'm not looking the right places
(any hints from other developers would be greatly appreciated).

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[Gordon Beaton]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:54:05 GMT, Randolf Richardson wrote:

I will be starting some TCP socket programming in Java later on this
year, and the direction I would look for a solution is something
that works very much like a BSD Socket "select()" function.

I took a quick look at the Java API documentation on Sun's web site
for this, but didn't find anything

java.nio.channels.Selector.select() is what you are looking for.

/gordon

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