This kind of idea can be used when you want to initiate a conversation
with HTTP, but then transfer to a different protocol after the first
contact - Jason Hunter's book has an example which does a similar this -
Daytime server, which supplies the time using HTTP, raw sockets and RMI.
Catherine
>
> Why would you want to have servlets listen at a port? Servlets are for a
> webserver kind of environment which allows them to handle requests.
>
> Normally applications are the only pieces of code that should listen at a
> port. When you listen at a port you create a server socket. Get a socket
> from that and spawns threads that will handle that socket. It then continues
> listening.
>
>
> Thanks,
> tanmay
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R�bert P�rhonyi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 8:44 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: sockets and ports
>
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have a servlet (and its running threads) which is listening a specific
> portnumber. If a message comes in through this port who will get the
> message? All the threads or just one of them and this one should
> distribute it to the others?
>
> Thanx for your answer!
>
>
> regards,
> Robert
>
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