Hi,
   I have a serversocket running as a thread ( i.e. socket is listening continuously in the run method of that thread).
I am not able to invoke thread.interrupt on that thread. Can somebody suggest a way to stop that thread?


Thanks
Puru

Close the server socket and fall out of the run method.

class Server implements Runnable
{
  ServerSocket socket;

  void run()
  {
    try
    {
      while(true)
      {
        handle(socket.accept());
      }
    }
    catch(SocketException e)

  }

}

Missed a bit

Close the server socket and fall out of the run method.

class Server implements Runnable
{
  ServerSocket socket;

  void run()
  {
    try
    {
      while(true)
      {
        handle(socket.accept());
      }
    }
    catch(SocketException e)

  }

  void shutdown()
  {
    sock.close();
  }
}

thanks. I am attaching the skeleton code which I used... please let me know if I am doing any error

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class server implements Runnable {

/**
* Main processing method for the server object
*/
public void run() {

try {
while (true) {
//open socket and keep listening and process the received messages for ever


}
} catch (InterruptedException e) {

// somebody interrupted the thread.. stop the socket and end
                        socket.close;
e.printStackTrace();
return;// ends this thread
}
}


/**
* The main program for the server class
*
*@param args The command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {

ThreadGroup group = new ThreadGroup(
"server group");

server p = new server();
serverp1 = new server();
Thread worker = new Thread(group, p);
Thread worker1 = new Thread(group, p1);
worker.setName("worker thread");
worker.setPriority(1);

worker.start();
worker1.start();
group.interrupt();// should shutdown the server...

// its shutting down the server I do not use socket... from the
definition of interrupt, it will interrupt interruptablechannel,wait,sleep etc
somehow I am not able to get this thing to interrupt a thread in which a socket
is waiting for connections
}


}


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It will only cause this to happen if you are using an InterruptableChannel from the new nio stuff. I don't think that using the ServerSocket straight you are doing this. Try using a ServerSocketChannel instead. This can be obtained by creating a standard ServerSocket and calling getChannel. accept() on ServerSocketChannel will throw a ClosedByInterruptException - If another thread interrupts the current thread while the accept operation is in progress, thereby closing the channel and setting the current thread's interrupt status.

Hope this works

Stu