LAN strategy (Android)

[Dirk Bruere at NeoPax]

From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <[email protected]>

What's the best way to do this?

I have to read from a LAN using UDP. I open a socket by doing a name lookup
(the name of a PC I want to connect to) and port number as the app starts.

In a thread I loop around reading the socket for messages and act on them.

The problem is what do I do if I cannot access the LAN on startup and so miss
getting the name/address? As far as I can see the app sits there doing nothing
even if the LAN becomes available.

Alternatively, do I put the name/address lookup in the thread loop, and if so,
how?


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[Roedy Green]

To: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax
From: Roedy Green <[email protected]>

What's the best way to do this?

get the book with the three trains on the cover. See
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/thread.html

use
import java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue; import
java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap; import
java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue; import
java.util.concurrent.Semaphore; import java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor;
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