Most interesting Socket Options

• TCP_NODELAY
• SO_SNDBUF
• SO_RCVBUF
• Don't forget timeout !

      socket = new Socket(host, port);
      sock.setSoTimeout(5 * 1000); //milliseconds

      socket.setTcpNoDelay(true);
      socket.setSendBufferSize(1000);
      socket.setReceiveBufferSize(1000);

https://eklitzke.org/the-caveats-of-tcp-nodelay
http://normanmaurer.me/presentations/2013-jax-networking-on-jvm/#/41

Don't want to Hassle

    There are a few frameworks to rescue....

• Netty
• Vert.x
• Xnio
• Grizzly
• Apache Mina