Java examples for Network:Socket
Checks to see if a specific Socket port is available.
/* $Revision: 361 $ $Date: 2010-10-01 16:11:11 +0200 (Fr, 01 Okt 2010) $ $Author: bkiers $ * * Copyright (C) 2007-2009 National Library of the Netherlands, * Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands, * Planets//from ww w . j a v a 2s . c o m * KEEP * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, * MA 02110-1301, USA. * * For more information about this project, visit * http://dioscuri.sourceforge.net/ * or contact us via email: * jrvanderhoeven at users.sourceforge.net * blohman at users.sourceforge.net * bkiers at users.sourceforge.net * * Developed by: * Nationaal Archief <www.nationaalarchief.nl> * Koninklijke Bibliotheek <www.kb.nl> * Tessella Support Services plc <www.tessella.com> * Planets <www.planets-project.eu> * KEEP <www.keep-project.eu> * * Project Title: DIOSCURI */ //package com.java2s; import java.io.IOException; import java.net.DatagramSocket; import java.net.ServerSocket; public class Main { /** * Checks to see if a specific port is available. * * @param port the port to check for availability * Code from http://mina.apache.org/ */ public static boolean available(int port) { ServerSocket ss = null; DatagramSocket ds = null; try { ss = new ServerSocket(port); ss.setReuseAddress(true); ds = new DatagramSocket(port); ds.setReuseAddress(true); return true; } catch (IOException e) { /* falls through */ } finally { if (ds != null) { ds.close(); } if (ss != null) { try { ss.close(); } catch (IOException e) { /* should not be thrown */ } } } return false; } }