Good Client Socket Pool

Question

I need to manage long running TCP socket connections to an external server from my Java application. I'm looking for a good socket pool so I will be able to re-use the sockets. Are there any suggestions?

Solution 1

You could have a look at building a socket pool on top of Commons Pool.

Solution 2

Koders.com has an implementation here. I can't vouch for it's functionality, however, so you should run a few tests on it.

Comments

[David Rabinowitz]

Though about it, but I had bad experience with it in the past. Also, its code is was not optimised to Java 5/6 - no Generics, no concurrent collections, etc.

[Mark]

Good point. I guess that is one of the problems with some of the commons projects - collections being another example.