Just a quick FYI that I've made the `jessie-nio' branch, and have
checked in some of the initial code for the NIO rewrite. SSL support
is currently broken in this branch, because only a very small part of
the rewrite is done.
My plan for developing this is:
* Convert protocol objects to read from/write to ByteBuffers
instead of from streams (this is mostly done).
* Write an implementation of SSLEngine. This will be the most
difficult thing to do, because while there is an SSL handshake
implementation already in Jessie, it currently relies heavily on a
blocking-IO model.
* Write a wrapper for SSLSocket that uses SSLEngine. I don't think
this will be that difficult; it's pretty easy to wrap a blocking IO
API around an NIO one.
So, I'm about to start phase 2. All the while I will try to develop a
unit test suite for all the classes in this package (I have some for
the ones already written) which can be ported to Mauve once this is
all done.
If you're interested in helping out, please take a look!
