java.net versus java.nio

Question

At what point is it better to switch from java.net to java.nio? .net (not the Microsoft entity) is easier to understand and more familiar, while nio is scalable, and comes w

Answer 1

There is almost no reason to write this kind of networking code from scratch now. Packages like netty.io will almost always get you more reliable and flexible code with fewer lines of code than a hand-crafted solution will. Also, with Netty, you can get SSL support w/o complicating your implementation at all. Libraries like netty also obviate the "async vs threads" question almost entirely, gives you good performance, and still lets you tweak the threading model as needed.