Mark, I'm using netstat as follows. You can see the tomcat process listening on 8443 and all the incoming requests in TIME_WAIT. These connections do get cleared after the default timeout of 60 seconds, my intention is to refuse creating them in the first place.
netstat -anp | grep 8443 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15450/java tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19735 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19744 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19746 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19730 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19745 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19732 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19737 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19742 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19733 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19741 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19747 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19740 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19731 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19743 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19734 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19736 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19738 TIME_WAIT - tcp 0 0 10.64.62.101:8443 72.163.140.73:19739 TIME_WAIT -