[SNMP4J] thread safety on SNMP

[Frank Fock]

Hi Mert,

Yes, Snmp is thread safe as it could be.

I will take care about the Closable interface at least for the 3.0 release (based on Java 9 for DTLS support).

Best regards,
Frank


> On 8 Dec 2016, at 11:55, Mert Çalışkan <mcaliskan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I’m in  the process of integrating SNMP4J into Payara, which is derived from Glassfish application server, for the notification services mechanism.  
> Is it ok to say that an instance of org.snmp4j.Snmp is thread-safe? I’d say it is according to the source but I’d like to verify with the team.  
> 
> I see that a SNMP session can be closed, via close(), so I think it’d be good to implement java.io.Closeable in order to provide try-with-resources feature on the SNMP instances.
> 
> Thanks,  
> 
> Mert Çalışkan
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