Thanks Roy...

Roy West was nice enough to quote me in his blog: "You don't want to ship an experiment to a customer." Generally not a good idea...

Signals in Java

Revelations on Java Signal Handling is an important document to know how to catch signals in Java.

Stopping Java Threads listening on Sockets

You should read this link to for a recent discussion on how to interrupt threads that are listening on Socket's in Java:

http://www.javaworld.com/javaforums/showflat.php?Cat=2&Board=TheoryPractice&Number=382&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=7&o=&fpart=1