How to keep socket alive

Question

Dear All Java Devotees....
I was stucked upon the following socket programming challenge in my projects
first of all I have one Server and one Client
what I wanted initially was client registered to server
when the client abruptly terminated, it wont have any effect at all to the server
But in line with the Java Socket Programming Tutorial
it seems that it cant be done so easily
whenever I close down my client
Server will catch java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
so my question basically :
Is it possible for the Server to keeps iterating in a loop
while listening for a client to register
but here is the catch, I dun want anything severe happen to the Server
when somebody close down the Client abruptly
If possible I would like the server to keep its normal program flow
I mean sort of roll-back to the state before the exception occured
My punchline is to "keep the server program flow"
Any Idea/snippet will be greatly appreciated....
best regards,
Honggo

Answer 1

Hi Joey
sorry I've misled you
I've managed to solve the problem though
but now facing a new problem
I will be grateful if u come across the same problem
here is the scenario:
1. client starts
2. server stars
3. client & server bound to socket
4. client sending some information to server
5. server stops
I've followed your suggestion to use for loops and spawn a new thread for each accepted socket
it's a very simple & helpful idea, but as I observer i hit some shortcomings. I wish you could enlighten me with snippet of code, perhaps :D
after steps 5 which is when the server stops, client is unaware that server has already dead.
i've tried every methods described in the API (e.g. isClosed, isConnected, etc) but client didnt catch exception when client is sending some infomation to the "deceased" server.
So my question: How to detect whether or not the server is dead (in client).
regards,
Honggo