improved diagnostics, comments

projects/TcpExample4/TcpClient/TcpClient/nbproject/private/private.xml

-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project-private xmlns="http://www.netbeans.org/ns/project-private/1">
-    <editor-bookmarks xmlns="http://www.netbeans.org/ns/editor-bookmarks/2" lastBookmarkId="0"/>
-</project-private>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project-private xmlns="http://www.netbeans.org/ns/project-private/1">
+    <editor-bookmarks xmlns="http://www.netbeans.org/ns/editor-bookmarks/2" lastBookmarkId="0"/>
+    <open-files xmlns="http://www.netbeans.org/ns/projectui-open-files/2">
+        <group name="MV3500 networking open-dis">
+            <file>file:/E:/x-nps-gitlab/NetworkedGraphicsMV3500/projects/TcpExample4/TcpClient/TcpClient/src/tcpclient/TcpClient.java</file>
+        </group>
+    </open-files>
+</project-private>

projects/TcpExample4/TcpClient/TcpClient/src/tcpclient/TcpClient.java

@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ public class TcpClient
         }
         catch(Exception e)
         {
-            System.out.println(e);
             System.out.println("Problem with client");
+            System.out.println(e);
         }
 
     }

projects/TcpExample4/TcpThreadServer/TcpThreadServer/nbproject/private/private.xml

-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project-private xmlns="http://www.netbeans.org/ns/project-private/1">
-    <editor-bookmarks xmlns="http://www.netbeans.org/ns/editor-bookmarks/2" lastBookmarkId="0"/>
-    <open-files xmlns="http://www.netbeans.org/ns/projectui-open-files/2">
-        <group>
-            <file>file:/Users/mcgredo/projects/gitlab/NetworkedGraphicsMV3500/projects/TcpExample4/TcpThreadServer/TcpThreadServer/src/tcpthreadserver/TcpThreadServer.java</file>
-            <file>file:/Users/mcgredo/projects/gitlab/NetworkedGraphicsMV3500/projects/TcpExample4/TcpThreadServer/TcpThreadServer/src/tcpthreadserver/HandlerThread.java</file>
-        </group>
-    </open-files>
-</project-private>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project-private xmlns="http://www.netbeans.org/ns/project-private/1">
+    <editor-bookmarks xmlns="http://www.netbeans.org/ns/editor-bookmarks/2" lastBookmarkId="0"/>
+    <open-files xmlns="http://www.netbeans.org/ns/projectui-open-files/2">
+        <group>
+            <file>file:/Users/mcgredo/projects/gitlab/NetworkedGraphicsMV3500/projects/TcpExample4/TcpThreadServer/TcpThreadServer/src/tcpthreadserver/TcpThreadServer.java</file>
+            <file>file:/Users/mcgredo/projects/gitlab/NetworkedGraphicsMV3500/projects/TcpExample4/TcpThreadServer/TcpThreadServer/src/tcpthreadserver/HandlerThread.java</file>
+        </group>
+        <group name="MV3500 networking open-dis">
+            <file>file:/E:/x-nps-gitlab/NetworkedGraphicsMV3500/projects/TcpExample4/TcpThreadServer/TcpThreadServer/src/tcpthreadserver/HandlerThread.java</file>
+            <file>file:/E:/x-nps-gitlab/NetworkedGraphicsMV3500/projects/TcpExample4/TcpThreadServer/TcpThreadServer/src/tcpthreadserver/TcpThreadServer.java</file>
+        </group>
+    </open-files>
+</project-private>

projects/TcpExample4/TcpThreadServer/TcpThreadServer/src/tcpthreadserver/HandlerThread.java

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ public class HandlerThread extends Thread
     /** The socket connection to a client */
     Socket socket;
     
-    /** The threat creator creates the socket from
+    /** The thread constructor creates the socket from
      * a ServerSocket, and passes one to the thread
      * responsible for handling the connection.
      * 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ public class HandlerThread extends Thread
     
     /** Handles one connection. We add an artificial slowness
      * to handling the connection with a sleep(). This means
-     * the client won't see a server connection response for ten seconds.
+     * the client won't see a server connection response for ten seconds (default).
      * 
      */
     public void run()
@@ -45,7 +45,9 @@ public class HandlerThread extends Thread
              OutputStream os = socket.getOutputStream();
              PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(os);
 
-             Thread.sleep(10000);
+			 final long TIMEOUT = 10000; // 10000
+			 System.out.println("Server: pausing for TIMEOUT=" + TIMEOUT + "ms"); // debug
+             Thread.sleep(TIMEOUT); // 10 seconds
                 
             ps.println("This was written by the server");
             ps.flush();

projects/TcpExample4/TcpThreadServer/TcpThreadServer/src/tcpthreadserver/TcpThreadServer.java

@@ -21,11 +21,10 @@ public class TcpThreadServer {
             
             while(true)
             {
-                Socket clientConnection = serverSocket.accept();
+                Socket clientConnection = serverSocket.accept(); // block until connected
 
                 HandlerThread handlerThread = new HandlerThread(clientConnection);
-                handlerThread.start();
-               
+                handlerThread.start(); // invokesthe run() method in that object
             }
                         
         }