/** Start talking to the server */ public void start() { String codehost = getCodeBase().getHost(); if (socket == null) { try { // Open the socket to the server socket = new Socket(codehost, port); // Create output stream out = new ObjectOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream()); out.flush(); // Create input stream and start background // thread to read data from the server in = new ObjectInputStream(socket.getInputStream()); new Thread(this).start(); } catch (Exception e) { // Exceptions here are unexpected, but we can't // really do anything (so just write it to stdout // in case someone cares and then ignore it) System.out.println("Exception! " + e.toString()); e.printStackTrace(); setErrorStatus(STATUS_NOCONNECT); socket = null; } } else { // Already started } if (socket != null) { // Make sure the right buttons are enabled start_button.setEnabled(false); stop_button.setEnabled(true); setStatus(STATUS_ACTIVE); } }