junixsocket

junixsocket is a Java/JNI library that allows the use of Unix Domain Sockets (AF_UNIX sockets) from Java.

Why it's cool

In contrast to other implementations, junixsocket extends the Java Sockets API (java.net.Socket, java.net.SocketAddress, etc.)
Supports RMI over AF_UNIX
Can connect to local MySQL server via Unix domain sockets (provides a AFUNIXDatabaseSocketFactory for Connector/J).
Apache 2.0 licensed.

Licensing

junixsocket has been written by Christian Kohlschütter. It is released under the Apache 2.0 License.

Commercial support is available through [http://www.kohlschutter.com/ Kohlschütter Search Intelligence].

Changelog

Noteworthy changes

(2014-09-29) junixsocket 2.0.1
Bugfix: Added byte array bounds checking to read/write methods.
Fix C compiler warnings
Remove synchronized byte[] array for single-byte reads/writes.
(2014-09-28) junixsocket 2.0.0
Moved from Google Code to GitHub.
Now uses Maven as the build system, code is distributed to the Maven Central repository.
C code is built using nar-maven-plugin
JNI libraries are loaded using native-lib-loader

See the commit log for details.

For 1.x releases, please see https://code.google.com/p/junixsocket.

Documentation

For now, please refer to the Wiki on Google Code.

Quick links:

Related Work

JUDS (LGPL, no RMI, not using Java Sockets API)
J-BUDS (LGPL, no RMI, not using Java Sockets API, orphaned)
gnu.net.local (GPL with Classpath exception, no RMI, not using Java Sockets API, orphaned) -- Archive mirror.