How to close ServerSocket connection when catching IOException?

Question

Sorry for question, but I\'m totally noob in Java. What is the best practice to execute ServerSocket.close() when caught IOException from Ser

Answer 1

That's ugly in Java. I hate it, but this is the way you should do it: Wrapping it into another try-catch:

try {
    server = new ServerSocket(this.getServerPort());
    while(true) {
        socket = server.accept();
        new Handler( socket );
    }
} catch (IOException e) {
    if (server != null && !server.isClosed()) {
        try {
            server.close();
        } catch (IOException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace(System.err);
        }
    }
}