Finding out what network sockets are open in the current Java VM

Question

I\'m writing an end-to-end test that my Java program releases all of its resources - threads, server sockets, client sockets. It\'s a library, so releasing resources by exit

Answer 1

I haven't tried it myself, but the JavaSpecialists newsletter presents a similar problem:

http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue169.html

At the bottom, he describes an approach using AspectJ. You could probably put the pointcut around the constructor that creates the socket, and have code that registers socket creation there.