TIME-OUTING A SOCKET CONNECTION

Hello. Using a thread i am trying to create a socket. That is
Socket mySocket = new Socket(...); At times socket creation is taking a long time. I wish to put a timer on it. Say if it takes
more than 'n' seconds, i want the thread to terminate. But the thread is blocking on the socket creation and i am finding it difficult to come out of it. For that too i had to use deprecated
stop() method from the main() method to come out.
Are there any more elegant ways of doing it?
Prasad

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Originally posted by MSDPRASAD:

Hello. Using a thread i am trying to create a socket. That is
Socket mySocket = new Socket(...); At times socket creation is taking a long time. I wish to put a timer on it. Say if it takes
more than 'n' seconds, i want the thread to terminate. But the thread is blocking on the socket creation and i am finding it difficult to come out of it. For that too i had to use deprecated
stop() method from the main() method to come out.
Are there any more elegant ways of doing it?
Prasad

One solution is
Class
{
public static void main(String[] a)
{
while(1){ Create and start SocketThread;}
}
SocketThread
{
boolean socketIsOk;
1.) start thread 1
2.) start thread 2
}
Thread 1
{
1.)sockIsOk = false
2.)create a new socket connection here
3.)If no exception then sockIsOk = true
}
Thread 2
{
1.)wait for 'n' seconds
2.)if sockIsOk = false then stop Thread 1
}
}

Originally posted by MSDPRASAD:

Hello. Using a thread i am trying to create a socket. That is
Socket mySocket = new Socket(...); At times socket creation is taking a long time. I wish to put a timer on it. Say if it takes
more than 'n' seconds, i want the thread to terminate. But the thread is blocking on the socket creation and i am finding it difficult to come out of it. For that too i had to use deprecated
stop() method from the main() method to come out.
Are there any more elegant ways of doing it?
Prasad

Thanx Murthy!
I still needed to use the stop() method which is deprecated. Various options like polling the socket thread and then throwing an exception on timeout , setting socket thread as daemon thread etc. have been exhausted. Buck stops right at the new Socket();!
I am still on look-out for a soluttion.
Prasad