Provide a new transport based on SCTP. The advantages of SCTP are:

• Message based (like UDP), not stream based (like TCP), but still reliable
• Allows to bind to multiple endpoints (failover)

This requires the new NIO2 based transport to be completed, so this feature will probably be moved into a next release. Also, in JDK we only have a com.sun.nio.sctp package; once this is standardized it will be in a java.nio.channels.sctp package.

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/index-139946.html