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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2004 David Flanagan.  All rights reserved.
 * This code is from the book Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3nd Edition.
 * It is provided AS-IS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY either expressed or implied.
 * You may study, use, and modify it for any non-commercial purpose,
 * including teaching and use in open-source projects.
 * You may distribute it non-commercially as long as you retain this notice.
 * For a commercial use license, or to purchase the book, 
 * please visit http://www.davidflanagan.com/javaexamples3.
 */
//package je3.nio;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.CharBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.ServerSocketChannel;
import java.nio.channels.SocketChannel;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder;

/**
 * A simple TCP server for the daytime service. See RFC867 for details. This
 * implementation lacks meaningful exception handling and cannot handle UDP
 * connections.
 */
public class SimpleDaytimeServer {
    public static void main(String args[]) throws java.io.IOException {
        // RFC867 specifies port 13 for this service. On Unix platforms,
        // you need to be running as root to use that port, so we allow
        // this service to use other ports for testing.
        int port = 13;
        if (args.length > 0)
            port = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);

        // Create a channel to listen for connections on.
        ServerSocketChannel server = ServerSocketChannel.open();

        // Bind the channel to a local port. Note that we do this by obtaining
        // the underlying java.net.ServerSocket and binding that socket.
        server.socket().bind(new InetSocketAddress(port));

        // Get an encoder for converting strings to bytes
        CharsetEncoder encoder = Charset.forName("US-ASCII").newEncoder();

        for (;;) { // Loop forever, processing client connections
            // Wait for a client to connect
            SocketChannel client = server.accept();

            // Build response string, wrap, and encode to bytes
            String date = new java.util.Date().toString() + "\r\n";
            ByteBuffer response = encoder.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(date));

            // Send the response to the client and disconnect.
            client.write(response);
            client.close();
        }
    }
}