question about extending the Socket class

[netooi25]

Hi, I got the idea I would extend the Socket class
and provide a few more useful methods to it for my
program...

I am having a problem though.

When I call the accept method of the ServerSocket class,
It returns a Socket object instead of the subclass object.

It compiles but this is causing a classcastexception when I try to run it in a test program. Can anyone tell me how I can assign the return value of the ServerSocket's accept method to my subclass of the Socket class? Is this possible.

Sorry I posted this in J2EE forum also but looked like it might belong in here instead

Thanks

 

[timw]

Take a look at the java.net.SocketImplFactory interface. You need to implement this to return instances of your socket. Set your implementation of SocketImplFactory on the ServerSocket using the setSocketFactory method, and you're away.

Tim