Time-out sockets?!?!

[jenny]

I hope someone might be able to help me with this. I have a problem
concerning java and sockets. I'm trying to do a "mySocket.receive()" (multicastsocket)
in a client. The client is waiting for messages (datagram packets) to be
sent from servers to the client. I want the client to listen for messages
only for a short while and then do a time-out after about a minute.
I have two problems here. The client gets stuck on the ".receive" call
when no servers at all send messages. Not good. But if one server sends a
message it is received successfully.
The second problem is that I don't
know how to do the time-out in the client. Perhaps with a thread?! In that
case, is it possible to use the same datagram packet in all message
receivings or do I have to create a new one every time?!?!

I am very grateful for any answers!!!

Best regards
/ jenny

[Paul Clapham]

If you want the receive() method to time out after X seconds, you need to
call "setSoTimeout(X * 1000)".

PC2

"jenny" <jennyjava@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> I hope someone might be able to help me with this. I have a problem
> concerning java and sockets. I'm trying to do a "mySocket.receive()"
(multicastsocket)
> in a client. The client is waiting for messages (datagram packets) to be
> sent from servers to the client. I want the client to listen for messages
> only for a short while and then do a time-out after about a minute.
> I have two problems here. The client gets stuck on the ".receive" call
> when no servers at all send messages. Not good. But if one server sends a
> message it is received successfully.
> The second problem is that I don't
> know how to do the time-out in the client. Perhaps with a thread?! In that
> case, is it possible to use the same datagram packet in all message
> receivings or do I have to create a new one every time?!?!
>
> I am very grateful for any answers!!!
>
> Best regards
> / jenny