JAVA TCP/IP Socket Implementation (6)

Server Actions	Receive connections from clients
Instantiate a ServerSocket object Receive connections from clients Communicate with clients Recieve data/requests Send data/replys Close the socket	Accept() call returns a socket that is the connection to a specific client JAVA blocks on the accept() call Usual practice is to fork a thread for each client as well as one for the socket designated to recieve client connections

Socket sock;	// Declare a socket to represent the connection to a
				// specific client, i.e. the socket client and server will
				// communicate over

//  Call accept() on the ServerSocket to receive client connections,
//  when a connection is received a new socket is returned over which
//  the client and server will communicate

while(true) {
	try {
		sock = acceptSock.accept();
	}
	catch(IOException ioe) {
 		System.out.println("accept error: " + ioe.getMessage());
		break;                    
 	}
	/* ... Process client connection ... */
}
// Only break out of while loop if there was an error