HI , I am using the following configration - Jawa web server 2.0 on Sun Solaris - Oracle 8 database also on Sun Solaris When a connection is created ,This connection corresponds to a particular session id in Oracle database and a particular process in the Sun server. Now the problem is that I have to handle the errors when the connection is invalid or killed . To test this I used "Alter system " command in Oracle to kill the connection .After this the connection pooling code is running properly & a new connection is created . Now if I kill the same connection from unix using "kill -9 " with the spid I get an error saying socket error. So I want to know what is the correspondance between these two . Rgds Sujoy =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets