Handling Java runtime exception on Vista OS

Question

Hello Forum members,
This is regarding the handling of runtime exception on Vista machine with JRE 1.4.2_14.
Iam working on client / server scenario where i need handle the run time exception say SocketExcpetion or IOException like "No Route to Host " exception whenever there is network connection problem with the server.
Problem:
On Windows 2000 and Windows XP OS , Iam able to get the Socket Exception from the server when there is network connection problem and based on this Iam displaying some error message to the user but on Vista am not able to catch these runtime exception since Vista OS is blocking the runtime excpetion thrown from the server or network.
Please let me know how to configure the Vista OS to allow the runtime exception to be thrown to the user or how to handle the programmatically (using java ) on Vista OS to throw exception.
Any suggestion is welcome
Best regards,
Sudhir

Answer 1

I have heard that on Vista machine , by default the windows firewall will block all the runtime exceptions (especially the ones which are thrown from the server).
This problem is with respect to Client/server scenario where the server will throw SocketException when there is network connection problem and on the client side i need to catch and handle this exception to display appropriate message to the end user.
Background: Iam able to handle exception thrown from the server on Windows 2000 and Windows XP but on Vista am facing the above said problem i.e. am not able to get any exception from the server.