Server Socket Threading

Question

My program does a couple of things, one of the thing it does is it runs a ServerSocket in the background.
The problem is that when I run the my Server class, I can't do anything else since the ServerSocket is stuck in an infinite loop waiting for a new request.
See this:
My Driver
    public static void main(String [] args) {
            new Server();
            new SomethingElse();
    }Server's snippet of code that establishes a connection between a client and server.
     while (true)
                  try
                        Socket clientSocket = serverSocket.accept();
                   catch (IOException e)
                        System.out.println("Could not accept requests.");
                        System.exit(-1);
              }So I can never reach SomethingElse() in the driver since Server is stuck in an infinite loop.
I have tried to implement the ServerSocket as a thread, but the serverSocket throws an IOException (which makes sense since a ServerSocket should not have multiple versions of itself running at a same time unless they are on separate ports).
So how would take care of this?
Edited by: sharpdust on Dec 5, 2008 1:12 PM

Answer 1

How about something like this?
public static void main(String [] args) {
            new Thread(new Server()).start();
            new SomethingElse();
public class Server implements Runnable {
     public void run() {
          while (true)
                  try
                        Socket clientSocket = serverSocket.accept();
                   catch (IOException e)
                        System.out.println("Could not accept requests.");
                        System.exit(-1);
}