max munber of sockets

[william kane]

Is there a limit on how many sockets one can open on a system using java sockets?

[Peter den Haan]

Realistically, unless you're using java.nio.*, the limit is AFAIK the number of threads you can handle -- a few hundred to a few thousand, depending on the platform and the JVM you use.
- Peter

[Van Glass]

This is of course also limited to the number of available ports on a system. I believe the hard limit is 65535