Timeout for user session/connection

Question

Hi All,
We have 81741 database acessed by windowNT/2000 users connecting via formswebserver(6.0.8.21.1) using JInitiator 1.1.8.19, we use Apache server and/or webDb listener on webserver. Users are assigned different roles like engineer, technician, manager etc. As per management request, we need to timeout and close ENGINEERs connection which is idle for more than 60 min. Now, we need to kill the database session, kill the process on webserver and kill the application screen user has on his PC. I am sure, this has been implemented by some of our OTN members.
Any suggestions would be appreciated in this regard.
Thanks & Regards.

Answer 1

You could try polling with in.available() for 5 seconds. As long as it returns 0, there is nothing to read.
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
while (in.available() == 0 && System.currentTimeMillis()-start < 5000) {
  Thread.yield();
// now the 5000 milliseconds has expired OR there is input available:
String s;
if (in.available()) {
  s = in.readLine();
  System.out.println(s);
  // there might be more to read, so you can check with in.available() again until you have read everything..
} else {
  System.out.println("timeout");
}