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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @bug 8017195
+ * @summary Introduce option to setKeepAlive parameter on CORBA sockets
+ *
+ * @run main/othervm KeepAliveSockets
+ * @run main/othervm -Dcom.sun.CORBA.transport.enableTcpKeepAlive KeepAliveSockets
+ * @run main/othervm -Dcom.sun.CORBA.transport.enableTcpKeepAlive=true KeepAliveSockets
+ * @run main/othervm -Dcom.sun.CORBA.transport.enableTcpKeepAlive=false KeepAliveSockets
+ */
+
+import java.lang.*;
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.net.Socket;
+import java.nio.channels.ServerSocketChannel;
+import java.util.*;
+import com.sun.corba.se.impl.orb.*;
+
+import com.sun.corba.se.impl.transport.*;
+
+public class KeepAliveSockets {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+
+        boolean keepAlive = false;
+        String prop = System.getProperty("com.sun.CORBA.transport.enableTcpKeepAlive");
+        if (prop != null)
+            keepAlive = !"false".equalsIgnoreCase(prop);
+
+        DefaultSocketFactoryImpl sfImpl = new DefaultSocketFactoryImpl();
+        ORBImpl orb = new ORBImpl();
+        orb.set_parameters(null);
+        sfImpl.setORB(orb);
+
+        ServerSocketChannel ssc = ServerSocketChannel.open();
+        ssc.socket().bind(new InetSocketAddress(0));
+
+        InetSocketAddress isa = new InetSocketAddress("localhost", ssc.socket().getLocalPort());
+        Socket s = sfImpl.createSocket("ignore", isa);
+        System.out.println("Received factory socket" + s);
+        if (keepAlive != s.getKeepAlive())
+            throw new RuntimeException("KeepAlive value not honoured in CORBA socket");
+    }
+
+}