Question

I read some tutorial about sockets in Java, and I found that different examples had different explanations on how to use the ServerSocket class.

For example here are two different implementations:

 Socket s = serverSocket.accept();
 //using s

and

while(true)
{
   Socket s = serverSocket.accept();
}

What is the difference between these two cases?

Answer 1

The first accepts only one connections, while the second will continue accepting more connections (each time it reaches Socket s = serverSocket.accept();)