Re: [Classpath-inetlib] Connection pooling

[Chris Burdess]

Carsten Ringe wrote:
> I switched back to your inetlib and discarded the JavaMail stuff.  
> Now I thought about a connection pool for my NNTP newsreader to  
> support multiple connections. This would be useful if there are a  
> lot of downloading tasks running.
>
> Is there a way to check if a connection is still busy (like  
> downloading the new articles from one group)? I'd then like to  
> implement a busy listener that automatically flags the connection  
> as idle/busy to support like 3 connections to one news server.

Well, all the NNTPConnection methods are synchronous, so it's busy  
while it's calling that method. You can write wrapper threads for  
various tasks that can report on their status.
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犬 Chris Burdess
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  deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

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