RE: use of JLDAP's LDAPConnection

[Marc Boorshtein <mboorshtein@yahoo.com>]

I'm not really sure what you mean by "Novell specific
classes".  While the entire package is branded by
novell, it is 100% LDAP.

Marc


--- "Jung, Eric" <Eric.Jung@Arbella.com> wrote:

> Thank you everyone for the replies!
> 
> Jon, I completely missed those methods. They solve
> the problem on Windows
> 2000. Interestingly, I notice that
> com.novell.ldap.LDAPConnection has those
> methods but also has one called isConnectionAlive().
> Looking at the source
> code, isConnectionAlive() actually attempts to write
> data to the socket. If
> an exception is thrown, the method returns false;
> otherwise true.
> 
> isConnected(), on the other hand, only checks to see
> if the input stream is
> null. Without a thorough analysis of the class, it'd
> be hard for me to
> determine when the stream is set to null, but on
> Windows 2000 this seems to
> be equivalent to isConnectionAlive(). I'm wondering
> if other operating
> systems are able to proactively determine socket
> disconnects without
> attempting to write/read data to/from the socket
> and, moreover, why novell
> thought they needed to include this extra method in
> their version of the
> class...
> 
> Any thoughts? I'd rather not use the novell-specific
> classes...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Roberts [mailto:jon@jonanddeb.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 5:57 PM
> To: Jung, Eric
> Cc: 'OpenLDAP-software@OpenLDAP.org'
> Subject: Re: use of JLDAP's LDAPConnection
> 
> 
> Jung, Eric wrote:
> > Is there any way to determine if an LDAPConnection
> (or its underlying
> > socket) has gone bad?
> 
> Have you tried testing the connection with the
> LDAPConnection 
> isConnected() and isBound() methods?
> 
> Jon Roberts
> www.mentata.com
>