How to established a connection and not closing it after passing some time

Question

Im developing a TCP socket in Java, and I want to make the connection between server and client open all the time until it has passed some time, and then the connection close and wait for a new accept, how can I implement it by a while with a timer? Also, can I make that if the client or the server has not made any coomunication after passing some time, then the connection close? I try to do it by setSoTimeout, but it only works with the accept, so is there any method that allows you to close the connection after some time?

Answer 1

Try using socket.settimeout(time). Alternatively, get the system time when the socket was opened, and the current system time, and if the difference is a specific amount of time, close the socket.