Java: How to communicate with multiple clients in a single thread

Question

I have a list of sockets that belongs to a single thread. But I wonder is there a feasible way to communicate (read/write from/to) with those those clients? I don't want to create one thread for each client because there may be too much users and creating one thread for each of them may be too costly.

Answer 1

I'd say NIO is your best bet here. Check out one of the many good tutorials for NIO communications over a socket (well, SocketChannel)!

I believe this is the tutorial that I used when I had to learn NIO: http://rox-xmlrpc.sourceforge.net/niotut/