Catching an exception thrown from another thread

Question

I have a SocketServer that creates new threads to handle incoming clients. If one of the threads throw a SQLException is it possible to catch that exception in the SocketServer that created that thread.
I tried implementing this code and I cannot get the server to catch an exception thrown in the thread. Are my assumptions correct?
I was reading something about Thread Groups and implementing an uncoughtException() method, but this looked like overkill.
Thanks for your time!
Some Example code would be the following where the ClientThread will do a database query which could cause an SQLException. I'd like to catch that exception in my Socket Server
      try
             new ClientThread( socketServer.accept() , host, connection ).start();
      catch( SQLException e )
             System.out.println( "DataSource Connection Problem" );
              e.printStackTrace();
      }

Answer 1

hehe, why?
The server's job is to listen for an incoming message from a client and pass it off to a thread to handle the client. Otherwise the server will have to block on that incoming port untill it has finished handling the client and usually there are many incoming clients continuously.
The reason I would want to catch an exception in the server based on the SQLException thrown in the thread is because the SQLException is usually going to be due to the fact the datasource connection has become unavalable, or needs to be refreshed. This datasource connection is a private variable stored in the socket server. The SocketServer now needs to know that it has to refresh that datasource connection. I would normally try to use somesort of flag to set the variable but to throw another wrench into my dilemma, the SocketServer is actually its own thread. So I can't make any of these variables static, which means I can't have the thread call a method on teh socket server to change the status flag. :)
I guess I need implement some sort of Listener that the thread can notify when a datasource connection goes down?
Thanks for the help so far, I figured java would not want one thread to catch another thread's exceptions, but I just wanted to make sure.