[jdom-interest] Can someone enlighten me on sockets? (was: Why does passing a document through a socket sometimes hang the parser?)

[Torsten Schlabach]

Hi folks,

bare with me if this is off-topic or considered a stupid question, but under
what circumstances will a document at all be parsed through a socket so that
this "parser hangs" issue can arise? I if pass a filename to the parser,
won't the parser just open the file and that's it? Where's a socket here?

Regards,
Torsten Schlabach
Freelance