Socket communication?

Question

What are the preferred platforms to implement TCP socket communication?

I'm interested in:

• scripting languages (eg Swocket for Python)
• and runtimes (eg .NET / Java).

Answer 1

In Java, we use Apache Mina,

http://mina.apache.org/

Its performance rivals C implementation.

Answer 2

Socket communication implemented using Java NIO might be a good method. Some of Java based web servers use it. I remember jetty using it. Here is a link from Sun.