Ideally, I only need a simple SSLSocketChannel.
I already have a component that reads and writes message over ordinary SocketChannel, but for some of these connections, I have to use SSL over the wire; the operations over these connections, however, are the same.
Does anyone knows a free SSLSocketChannel implementation (with the appropriate selector) or something similar? I've found this, but the selector doesn't accept it since its vendor isn't SUN.
I'm decoupling the reading_from/writing_to net logic from the insertion and retrieval of network data via a simple object, in order to use a SSLEngine without getting mad, but it's really tricky to implement that correctly, given the fact that I don't know the internals of SSL protocol...
Check out Restlet's implementation it may do what you need, and it's all about NIO.
Specifically the HttpClientCall. SetProtocol(HTTPS) - getResponseEntityChannel returns a ReadableByteChannel (getEntityChannel returns a WriteableByteChannel)