socket.accept() + socket.close()

[Luiz Reginaldo Curado]

Hi!

I want to close my server socket, but my server thread is blocked in the accept() call. In my implementation I call close() and a Socket Exception is throwed. Is this the correct way to stop my server?

public void startServer() {
try {
...
socket.accept() ;
...
} catch( SocketException e ) {
e.printStackTrace() ;
}
}

public void stopServer() {
...
socket.close() ;
...
}

[chris bajada]

Yes, it is the correct way to stop the server. The SocketException is thrown, as the socket can no longer listen for incoming client connections.