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Enhancement
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Resolution: Won't Do
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Minor
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2.12
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None
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Low
This is not actually a JGroups bug, it's more of a Sun JVM bug. See the following:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6939037
In short, when a port is in use in Windows 7, SocketException is thrown instead of the more specific BindException.
JGroups has code in several places that probes for available ports. Perhaps Windows 7 should be detected, and SocketException be caught instead of BindException in these circumstances.
Before anyone cries out "get a real OS", we use RHEL on our production servers, but some of our developers use Windows 7 on their development boxes.