Following is a thread which has a SOCKET listening at port 15445. Whenever a Datagram packet is sent to it, it forwards back to the sender's address after adding a String(Reply from SERVER) in it. I want this code to run somewhere on the Internet, but I don't know where to start.
Is it possible? Can I run this code on a Tomcat server or do I need to do something different?
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class HelloWorld extends Thread {
protected DatagramSocket socket = null;
protected BufferedReader in = null;
public HelloWorld() throws IOException {
socket = new DatagramSocket(15445);
}
public void run() {
while (true) {
try {
byte[] buf = new byte[256];
DatagramPacket packet = new DatagramPacket(buf, buf.length);
socket.receive(packet);
InetAddress address = packet.getAddress();
int port = packet.getPort();
String s = "Reply from SERVER";
byte[] b= s.getBytes();
packet = new DatagramPacket(b, b.length, address, port);
socket.send(packet);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
new HelloWorld().start();
}
}
No, Tomcat isn't a web server. It's a servlet/JSP engine that happens to have an HTTP server built in.
This looks like POJO with a main. Why can't you just run that as a service? Why do you think you need a web server?