IO blocking and deadlock

[amit sanghai]

Suppose I have a client server situation where the client has connected to the server and it is not doing anything for a lot of time and so that thread is blocked. how do we handle that?

[Peter den Haan]

Set socket timeouts (SO_TIMEOUT), use a reaper thread to close() the socket after a while (dirty, but works), or use java.nio.* non-blocking I/O.
- Peter