Ha ha... nice.
He's right but I think you right too
TCP is a guarenteed protocol, so the second you screw that connection around, if the buffer has not cleared and socket loses the connection it will throw an exception...
If it was UDP you would be right.
... but on a servlet container like
Tomcat I dont think the application will see it unless you trap the exception... the message will be in some obscure log file.
The reason they cant crash the app is because if the servlet is taking a long time and the user gets bored and closes the browser, the same think happens... but its just a log message.
Take each other to lunch